Increasing crop yields and farmer profitability through Technology plant cultivation

PRODUCTIVITY = INDEX PERFORMANCE + INDEXD QUALITY + INDEX ADOPTION TECHNOLOGY          

Thomas Robert Malthus theory which says that the population increases geometrically, while the amount of available food increases arithmetically. With a population of 216 million people, Indonesia currently require food staples at least 53 million tons of rice, 12.5 million ton, of maize and 3.0 million tons of soybeans. If not offset by growth in domestic food production significantly, can lead to lower national food security. Despite efforts to increase food production in the country today continues to be done, but the rate of increase is still not able to meet domestic food needs because of the productivity of food crops and increasing the total area of ​​stagnant and even declining.To increase national food production, productivity can be increased by applying the technology of production, among others through the use of PLANT CULTIVATION TECHNIQUE. The low application of technology from the large gap appears cultivation production potential of research results with results obtained in the field by farmers. This is because the understanding and mastery of the application of new technology packages that less can be understood by farmers as a whole so that the application of technology in fragments (Mashar, 2000). Such as improper use of fertilizer, improved seed and how to apply maintenance that is not optimal because of poor farmers are not optimal dissemination of technology, guidance systems and poor farmers venture capital itself. In addition, because of the way aquaculture farmers applying conventional and less innovative cultivation such as the tendency to use chemical fertilizer inputs continuously, do not use crop rotation, post-harvest loss is still high 15-20% and irrigation water use inefficient. As a result, among others, have an impact on the low productivity of farming threatens the survival and competitiveness in the market continues to decline. The low productivity and competitiveness of commodity crops cultivated cause a decline in interest of farmers to develop the cultivation of food, resulting in large scale affect national production.To solve the above problems the government should provide subsidies to farmers and technology involving stakeholders in making the acceleration of change (Saragih, 2003). Technology subsidy in question is the existence of capital for farmers to obtain or may buy the technology and productivity escort cultivation technology can be mastered so completely and efficiently to post-harvest stage. For example, farmers can acquire and apply technology to increase crop productivity, for example quality seeds, balanced fertilization, pest & disease management, post harvest mechanization and facilitation as well as escort in the field.productivity improvement program in order to succeed the corn harvest is to coordinate between agencies, extension workers and farmers. This is to accelerate the adoption of new maize cultivation technology by farmer. This meant that the farmers' skills in an effort to manage their farm has also increased. Efforts to increase the productivity of corn can not run maximized if there is no coherence and coordination between farmers, extension agents, and officers from relevant agencies.