Enhancing Self-reliance through Appropriate Agricultural Strategies

When it comes to sustainable agriculture, this book is an excellent and superb guide for readers to become eventually self-reliant and productive. The agricultural strategies that the author had formulated depict an approach called self-reliance in rice production that utilizes available resources from the farm without relying on external inputs like chemical fertilizers and pesticides that can bring harmful impacts on ecosystems. Thus, farmers in self-reliant rice cultivation should begin with a full understanding of what it means, and a willingness to change their way of farming, as well as their way of life, so they take a more sustainable direction. Farmers should consider themselves and their activities as part of the whole farm system. Whatever farming system is adopted by farmers in rice cultivation, it will definitely affect the quality of the environment in one way or another. In self-reliant farming, to maintain environmental quality thus begins in the minds of farmers, before going into technical, economic and social aspect. Therefore, this book is indeed appropriate for farmers who are unreluctant to transform their lives for quality life.