Utilization Of Natural Resources As Food Ingredients In Indonesia: This Is An Effort And Obstacle

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YOGYAKARTA Utilization of natural resources as food in Indonesia is one of the government's efforts in realizing food security. Unfortunately, the use of natural resources (SDA) in Indonesia as food is not easy to do.

This article will discuss what natural resources utilization activities can meet foodstuffs and obstacles that may be encountered.

Basically, the use of natural resources as a strategy to meet food needs has been carried out. Fulfillment is carried out in various ways, namely as follows.

Efforts made to meet foodstuffs are through the agricultural sector. This sector involves many activities ranging from fertilization, seed selection, planting, to harvesting. Agriculture is even an important effort in meeting food needs with local natural resources.

Like agriculture, livestock is also an important activity in managing natural resources to meet food needs. This effort involves many activities ranging from efficient and environmentally friendly feed management, as well as the implementation of waste management to reduce pollution, and many more.

The use of marine resources and freshwater such as fish, shrimp, shells, and various marine products can be a way to national food security. This activity can be done by fishing or fish farming. With this activity, the fulfillment of food ingredients will be very possible.

Apart from agriculture, plantation activities also help meet local food needs. Plantation itself is in the form of planting large plants such as coconut, coffee, cocoa, palm oil, sugar cane, and many more. The plantation products can be processed into other purposes.

Forests as a food source are also unforgettable. Forests provide potential foodstuffs such as leaves, tubers, to wild medicinal plants.

The use of natural resources to meet foodstuffs is very possible, but it does not mean that there are no obstacles. There are several things that can be an obstacle in its implementation, namely as follows.

Fulfillment of foodstuffs with the use of natural resources is likely to encounter seasonal problems. Most food productions such as rice, corn, vegetables, fruit currently still depend on the weather and the rainy season. Meanwhile, during the long dry season or extreme climate change, food production can drop drastically.

Capital and market access are still obstacles that must be faced by farmers, breeders, or other professions related to the food industry. This obstacle will be a probing in the production of foodstuffs.

Education and socialization are also other obstacles that need to be resolved. Public awareness of consuming local food items seems to be still very low. There are still many people who choose to consume imported or instant foodstuffs compared to local materials such as sago, cassava, or sorghum.

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