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Fri, 10/17/2008 - 01:08
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SPI CALLS FOR AGRARIAN REFORMS
Jakarta, Oct 16 (ANTARA) - Hundreds of Indonesian Farmers Union (SPI) members rallied and calling for agrarian reforms for the redistribution of productive lands for small farmers.
"This is a very important measure in anticipating food shortages in the current financial crisis," Chairman of SPI Henry Saragih said here Thursday.
Saragih and SPI members were demonstrating on Merdeka Selatan Street to observe World Food Day, October 16.
According to Saragih, the food security program produced in the World Food Summit in 1996 and the International Farmers Movement with massive, monoculture, export-oriented and capital intensive farming, will not succeed.
"On the other hand, a family based, policulture, demand- oriented and labour intensive farming will solve the basic problems of farming and food as well as poverty," Saragih said.
"In the past ten years since the establishment of SPI in 1998, the organization had turned big idle farmlands and and fertile lands into citizens' land to satisfy food demands," he added.
From 2007 to 2012, Saragih added, SPI will carry out agrarian reforms and develop 200 thousand hectares of productive land for small farmers across Indonesia.
"This is a very important measure in anticipating food shortages in the current financial crisis," Chairman of SPI Henry Saragih said here Thursday.
Saragih and SPI members were demonstrating on Merdeka Selatan Street to observe World Food Day, October 16.
According to Saragih, the food security program produced in the World Food Summit in 1996 and the International Farmers Movement with massive, monoculture, export-oriented and capital intensive farming, will not succeed.
"On the other hand, a family based, policulture, demand- oriented and labour intensive farming will solve the basic problems of farming and food as well as poverty," Saragih said.
"In the past ten years since the establishment of SPI in 1998, the organization had turned big idle farmlands and and fertile lands into citizens' land to satisfy food demands," he added.
From 2007 to 2012, Saragih added, SPI will carry out agrarian reforms and develop 200 thousand hectares of productive land for small farmers across Indonesia.
