Organic Farmers
By : Imansyah Rukka
Vonis that his wife have a breast cancer make Sumedi switch to organic agriculture.
According to Medi, call, inorganic agricultural practices to make too many products contain harmful chemical elements for the body. Then they become the body of the victim. Maimunah breast cancer, his wife, one of the negative impact of the evidence. After surgery, the cancer is gone. But recovery is not enough. Medi wife should be equal to the pattern of healthy living and alternative therapy. Work as a Project Officer in a foreign company since the field of corn in 2002 he leave and he would prefer to farm. Originally, water from the river through a channel in the canyon so that the water to easily infiltrate the soil. As a result, the water was only slightly until the rice field. To cultivate the land, graduates Soil Science Department Faculty of Agriculture, University of Gajah Mada (UGM), Yogyakarta is not using the tractor, but the pirate cow. Medi ago to switch to the traditional system of hereditary use local farmers. "From the beginning we really want agriculture here is adequate for the needs of their own," He only to prey pests such as snakes and kite will to prey the mouse as needed without damage to the cycle of life. We do not need to seize the rights of living beings for the sake of our lives other, "he said. Before applying organic agriculture, the food chain in the Medi and the surrounding rice fields can be interrupted. While the shallow mud of rice field with the bottom crust. According to Medi, it happened due to the green revolution is too important results without considering sustainability and environmental sustainability. But when still living in the village until the junior class II, the first child of four brothers remember how this local farmers help each other when the fallow rice fields, planting and harvest seeds, to cultivation plant, to harvest agricultural products. According to the Medi green revolution not only damage the environment but also the social relations. But after seeing the results that the organic agriculture Medi produce more, some local farmers began to apply the organic agriculture. Together with four other farmers in the area, the more Medi Paguyuban (Farmers Group) Hardo Pusoro means the rotation axis or the earth. Parahyangan applied through ceremonies, through the process pawongan sense of grace, and with palemahan not damage the environment. This occurred due to late cultivation opinion that the farm only to get the results as much as possible despite the expense of the preservation of the environment and human health. In the village the only remaining old farmer.