Achieving Food Security in Crisis Time

UTILIZATION NARROW LAND AS SOLUTION DECREASING OF AGRICULTURAL LAND TO OVERCOME FOOD CRISIS

Increasing population, changing agricultural land into non-agricultural land, such as residential. Agricultural land was reduced, but we have to overcome, for example, by use narrow land. Our yard can be used. As an example we can use it for beauty (ponds and ornamental plants), tabulampot (fruits plants in pots), taoblampot (medicinal plants in pot), tayurlampot (vegetables plants in the pot), fish ponds, small livestock, etc.
Some techniques in utilization narrow land such as verticultur, aquaponic, and other.

Verticultur is the way farming is done by placing the plant in the media containers arranged vertically to take advantage of a narrow location. Models and materials for making containers verticultur very much, can be according to the conditions and decires. Can be used paralon, tin cans, bag of rice sheets for verticultur techniques. There are several other models that have been tried, with the bamboo materials that very dominant. We can use the remnants of building materials used when renovating, because one of the verticultur philosophy is to use old things around us.

Aquaponic is continuous use of water from the fish maintenance to the plant and vice versa from the plant to fishponds. Basic core of this technological system is to optimum water supply for each comodity by using re-circulation system. Aquaponic technology system is emerging as the answer to the increasingly difficult problem to get source a suitable water for fish, especially in narrow fields, aquaponic which is one of land-saving technologies and water that can be combined with a variety of vegetable plants.

Tabulampot can be a solution for who wants to gardening in small fields. By utilizing a small area of land, some types of plant can be placed in adjacent locations. Beside that, almost all types of fruit plants can be planted in tabulampot. Like chocolate, mango, rambutan, oranges, starfruit, water guava, jackfruit, and others. All of plant can tabulampot, except durian, because the roots of durian are not flexible.
From all of tabulampot, the most easily planted are mango and guava water. Other plants must have patience because it has different character. Beside that, the fruiting process tabulampot faster than ordinary plants. For example, tabulampot mango can product fruit in about three years. Common mango take up to five years.
Because tabulampot planted in limited places so that the supply of water and fetilizer can be arranged as you wish and not spread anywhere. Differ from ordinary plants grown on land, water and fertilizer supply may spread to the surrounding plants so that the needs of the two needs decreased. In tabulampot absorption of water and fertilizer to 80 percent.

When tabulampot are grown up, can be moved to elsewhere bigger. The taste are no different from ordinary plants. Care is also not much different from ordinary plants that need water, fertilizer, friable, pest spraying, and environmental sanitatation.
Having tabulampot not without weakness, because the root circulation limited, automatic fruiting capacity is also limited. A maximum tabulampot mango fruit can produce between five and eight for once the harvest season. Different from ordinary trees can be a lot of numbers. If forced, plants can not product fruit in the next season or die. So we can make the much tabulampot for total fruit same as an ordinary tree.

Tabulampot mago have maximum age about 10 years. Ordinary mango trees can be used until many decades. For who are accustomed, the constrains were not a problem. Many people who can achieve success with tabulampot. Can even develop until the fruit in large quantities.

Narrow land can also utilized to plant vegetables, for example chili, mustard, spinach, kale. It also can be used to planting medicinal plant.
Hopefully the people knowledge about the utilization of narrow land increasingly. Also appeared creative ideas from the younger generation. I hope people can apply a narrow land use in the environment. Hopefully can be solution reduced agricultural land, or the narrowness of land owned, can also overcome the current food crisis.