Fajarasia.co – During a working visit in Bali, to be precise, to the Medium Traditional Village, Abiansemal, Badung, Wednesday, September 28, 2022, the Speaker of the Indonesian House of Representatives, Puan Maharani, mingled with local residents by planting Inpari 32 rice. Bung Karno’s grandson and residents planted rice with using an advanced cropping system or tanju.
Through her Instagram post @puanmaharaniri, Puan stated that Indonesia is a very rich country. In fact, it is so rich that rice cultivation in one area is different from another. Some use a backward planting system, some use an advanced soil system.
“Indonesia is so rich, different regions have different ways of growing rice. Here in the Medium Traditional Village, Abiansemal, Badung Regency, the fields are made into rectangular boxes before planting. In the East Java area, a straight line is made, in Sumatra it’s different,” said the first woman who served as Chair of the Indonesian House of Representatives.
The two cropping systems have their respective advantages and disadvantages. Then, what are the advantages of the advanced planting system that applies in the Medium Traditional Village, Abiansemal, Badung, as the Chairman of the Indonesian House of Representatives did with local residents last week.
The advanced cropping system which is also applicable in several other areas in Indonesia, referring to kompaspertanian.com, is one of the rice cultivation techniques that has been recognized for its superiority in the world of agriculture.
One of the advantages of this tanju is that farmers can plant their rice seeds faster and can more clearly see the line spacing that was previously made by farmers using ticks. This caplakan is a kind of traditional farming tool that serves to make lines for the spacing pattern of rice.
The Pekaseh of Subak Pasekan of Medium Village, Agus Gede Widita, revealed that the tick system has been applied by farmers for a long time. In fact, by the Department of Agriculture and Food of Badung Regency, residents are recommended to use an advanced cropping system.
“It’s natural for someone to ask why planting forward. Because residents who are not farmers are more aware of only backward planting systems. Even though the advanced planting system has been implemented for a long time, and is more profitable for farmers,” explained Agus, who was the host of the event, during Puan’s visit to Medium Village.
Agus said that the advanced planting system is easier to implement than backward planting, so it is suitable for millennial farmers. Because not all residents can use the backward planting system. However, by using the tick/tanju system, everything is possible because there is already a sign in the form of a line in the shape of a box.
“By planting ticks, crop productivity can increase by up to 10 percent compared to conventional (backward) planting methods. That’s why it is highly recommended by the government,” he said.
Separately, Head of the Agriculture and Food Service I Wayan Wijana explained that the tick system is highly recommended for farmers. In fact, according to Wijana, the tick system is now being further improved with the Jajar Legowo (Jarwo) system, which is also grown in its cultivation method.
“The tick system is one of the strategies to increase production because the spacing is properly regulated and makes it easier for farmers to plant because it follows the path that has been ticked,” he explained.
Here are some of the advantages of the advanced planting technique (Tanju):
1. Easy planting
Planting with the tanju technique or advanced planting makes it easier for farmers to plant their seeds because planting is carried out in a forward-looking way.
2. Faster planting of rice seeds
The use of the tanju or advanced planting technique is faster because the method of planting the seeds is by stepping forward, making it easier for farmers to plant them and having a wider range of hands and vision so that there is no missed spacing for planting seeds.
3. More tidy
Planting tanju is neater because this tanju technique does not step on the spacing line, unlike the tandur which is often accidentally stepped on which results in the erasing of the spacing line previously made with the tick.
By using advanced planting techniques, farmers can focus more on growing their rice seeds without having to look for spacing for their rice seeds.
4. Spacing holes are not missed.
When compared with the tandur technique which often misses the spacing of the planting holes, it is different from the tanju. The spacing of the holes to be planted is in front so that it is easier to fill them with seeds and will not be missed for planting.***
