Journey in A Peaceful and Prosperous Village
There is No Isolated Village in Java
Island of Java is land on which cities and towns of densely populated are. More than 60 % of the population of this country live in Java Island. Indeed the island is populated and not a single village is classified as remote village.
As the fact when our family made a visit to a wedding ceremony of my friend in a semi-remote village, unpredictable my daughter's smart mobile phone camera caught a motor cycle of KFC delivery service.
The KFC restaurant is located in the town of far away from the village, but the people in the semi-remote village must be have been booking for the American menu fried chicken. This indication that people the semi remote village is influenced by the trendy life of a town. Indeed the village is not isolated, and its access to outside is open broadly. And we see in the video there is a house with a parabolic receiver antenna.
People in the village have open access to outside world. They may know the happening occurs in this country even they may watch channel of international television. We saw in the video people were repairing road led by local leader.
They utilized local material (stones, gravel) to amend the road. And there was very rare government service officer in charge of public road, that made repair or maintenance of this kind road in remote/semi-remote area.
American Food Menu is in the Village
Figure 4.
Delivery Service Motor Cycle of Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) is on the Way to the Semi-Remote Village.
Cultivation and Production in Village
Rice fields are cultivated not simultaneously, Figure1 shows rice plants are flowering and estimated within 4 weeks the rice is mature and ready to be harvested, while Figure 5 here showing the newly planted rice filed (about 2 week after being planted).
There are 6 weeks different in planting time. This is the indication that cultivation of paddy is not all at the same planting-time. This regulation is adapted and scheduled by Agriculture Office Service of this District. Simultaneous planting makes the supply of limited irrigation water insufficient, but this policy make farmers to intensively control the weed and pest and deceases outbreaks.
Figure 6 shows wood as product of the hilly village.
The wood is harvested for preparing material of low risk building. It is belong to the third class wood, even the wood is utilized to supply the pulp factories to produce particle board or paper. The harvest age of the wood (Albazia falcata) is 5-8 years. The wood is planted in hilly area, and it is cultivated in poly culture system. It is a system where more that 2 kinds of plants are growing at the same field with arrangement of planting spaces.
There is a main plant, and other are temporary plants. The main plant is harvested the latest, while the temporary plants are growing later and harvested sooner. Main plants are mostly wider spaced, and the temporary plants are growing in between. This system of poly-culture will save soil from erosion, because there is no space uncovered and opened to splash erosion by ticking of rainfall. Rainfall comes to the surface of land through the leaves, twigs, branches, stems/trunk of trees, an eventually stream gently to the soil.
This mechanism of water reaches the soil will enhance percentage of infiltration water to soil, and water accumulate inside the soil, and the soil becomes water reservoir. This reservoir will be very valuable in dry season, no small river or ditches in this area are dry or without water. this makes irrigation water supply for the whole seasons (rainy season and dry season). In dry season farmers grow vegetables and tubers which require less water supply.
Taro is tuber that fame in this area. The taro (tuber) which is produced in the village is special for being fried. It tastes more delicious when it is fried. This makes it different from taro which is produced in other district which is special for being boiled or steamed as taro that is produced in Bogor district.
Not Simultaneous Cultivation and Wood Production
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