JAKARTA - Increasingly real climate change is now a big challenge that affects our daily lives, especially in terms of food. With increasingly extreme weather and increasingly underfertile soil, the world is faced with increasingly complicated serious problems, namely threatening food security.
In the midst of this threat, the increasing need for food is also an unavoidable problem. This makes Indonesia increasingly focused on finding more sustainable solutions.
According to Yacinta Esti, the Implementation Manager of ASEAN SME II Indonesia Component GIZ, who spoke at the 2025 Agrinovation Conference, was organized by Edufarmers and Indonesian Farmers, said that Indonesia is currently facing major challenges in meeting the growing food needs. However, in the midst of this uncertainty, a solution that is increasingly attracting the attention of many people, namely regenerative agriculture.
"In the midst of this challenge, this regenerative agriculture emerged as a new challenge. Offering a holistic approach that not only increases food production, but restores the ecosystem and improves the welfare of farmers," said Yacinta Esti, while speaking at JCC, Central Jakarta on Saturday, February 22.
This regenerative agricultural concept offers a different approach from conventional agricultural systems. Dr. Hadith Jayanti, Director of the ICARE Project at the Ministry of Agriculture, explains that regenerative agriculture puts forward an approach between humans and nature.
"Actually, there are many perspectives regarding this regenerative agriculture. So comprehensively, regenerative agriculture is a form of a transformative approach to agricultural approaches that smooth agricultural practices with nature," explained Dr. Hadith.
He added that the basic principles of regenerative agriculture include restoration and improvement of degraded soil quality, increasing biodiversity and a more efficient water management system.
"It is hoped that this regenerative agriculture that occurs is an increase in biodiversity, power of agricultural systems, governance and water management," said Dr. Hadith.
Gunawan Sutio, Chairman of the Indonesian Biogroinput Association, reminded the importance of technological innovation to support regenerative agriculture, including the use of natural material-based biostimulants.
"We understand that agricultural cultivation is on the ground. We cultivate it for a long time, we talk about massive production. The reality is that until now the land returns the fertility of the land is not something that can be ignored, but must be done," he said.
Biostimulan is a natural material-based technology such as the substance of Humik, amino, and others.
"This biostimulan does not talk about fertilizers and pesticides. This is a way to stimulate soil to be more fertile and can support agricultural production without damaging the ecosystem." added Gunawan.
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