The Effect of village labor resources on the feasibility on new cropping system in Indonesia

Abstract

Transmigration in Indonesia refers to the movement of people from densely populated regions to less populated one for the purpose of improving their economic situation. This is one of the alternatives for alleviating Java's population pressure problem and increasing development in rural areas. The introduction of multiple cropping in resettlement areas is seem as a key to increasing the welfare of transmigrants. The main objective of this study is to determine the feasibility of experimental multiple-cropping patterns with respect to labor supply in selected upland and lowland rice growing villages in transmigration projects of Lampung Sumatra. In addition to this, another objective is to examine the role of family labor, hired labor and exchange labor in increasing cropping intensity for achieving the socio-economic objectives of farmers...