GUIDANCE SYSTEM FOR RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT OF LOWLAND VEGETABLES IN INDONESIA

This paper describes the methodology used for the agro-economic guidance of research and development of lowland vegetables in Indonesia.
Attention is paid to the identification of priority crops, production centres, cropping systems, production constraints and impacts of new technologies.

The philosophy behind the guidance system is to take the farmers’ current knowledge as a starting-point for research and development.
This is new in the sense that many researchers are inclined to use their own knowledge as the starting-point.

The guidance system consists of the following instruments: (1) databank of vegetable areas per subdistrict, (2) exploratory surveys in the most important production regions, followed by (3) formal surveys in the same regions, and (4) farm-monitoring by representative groups of farmers.

I International Symposium on Horticultural Economics in Developing Countries

J.S. Buurma, R. Suherman

https://doi.org/10.17660/ActaHortic.1991.270.21