AGRICULTURE

Nowadays, many people have realized that agriculture is much more important than as the supporting tools in economic developments. In Indonesia, agricultural should be the priority of development because of some good reason. First of all, the agriculture’s contribution in the beginning of the development is highest among the other sectors. At present, almost half of total Indonesia labors are working in agriculture sector, but the contribution of agriculture sector does not reach 30 percent.

Second, agriculture sector is expected to fulfill the need of food in a country. As the number of population increase in an alarming rate each year, food supply must also increase. But in development countries, food production and agriculture production per capita never increase more than one percent each year, and in some extreme case, it even stagnant.

Last but not least, without agricultural development, the growth of industrial will be hampered because the growth that comes from industry will bring a wider gap into the internal economy in that country. In turn, this gap will create serious poverty problems, wider inequality of incomes distribution, and increase unemployment. Based on the above discussion, it is obvious that the government should put agriculture as the priority of national development.

Taken from: interlanguge