Organic Vegetables Training

On Sunday, May 25 2008, Kelompok Tani Lindung Harapan has conducted an exchange visit to an organic vegetable demonstration plot (demplot) in Dramaga, Bogor. This DEMPLOT is owned and managed by farmer group Pak Tani ORGANIK which is founded since April 2004. They are conducting vegetable cultivating with organic way. There were plenty of farmer group who has visited and making a training of the organic vegetable cultivating.

The area of the DEMPLOT is 2 hectares, it has provided various model means that complete the learning and available for anyone who wants to make organic vegetable cultivating. To fulfill the needs of organic fertiizer, they raise sheep and take its manure as organic fertilizer. To fulfill the needs of organic medicinals, they plant medicinal plants. They allocate location to make organic fertilizer, an area for cultivation of seedlings, and the place to stay overnight for the training participants.

Actually, Kelompok Tani Lindung Harapan is vegetable farmer group that is quite advanced. They have a truck that serves vegetables transportation from the cooperative member to the market. Still, during this time, thay are planting the vegetables conventionally, such as using factory made fertilizer, using pesticide to cope with the vegetable's pest.

Realizing the importance of health, the environmental conservation and the cost of vegetables cultivating in production price with conventional system, they are highly interested to see and directly meet the farmer who had cultivated vegetable with organic system. Petani Lindung Harapan would like to compare and prove the truth that organic farming is as good as conventional farming, and it says, organic farming is cheaper than the other production system.










































West Java Medical Plant Cooperative to gather with Telapak works in Tapos Village is supported by HPSP (Holticultura Partnership Support Programme), Hivos dan Japan Enveronmental Education Forum (JEFF)