WATER and

AGRICULTURE
Challenge
in
INDONESIA
Rainfall Agriculture Water
Resources
Storage in
Forest

Surface Delivered by
Water Connected by
River Irrigation

Ground
Water
 Water Resources Problem

Rainfall River Irrigation

Forest

Climate Change River Problem

affect to Water Limited
affect to unstable Deforestation Irrigation to farm
Rainy season affect to Distribution
ability
Storage ability
 How Deforestation Affect Water Supply
into Farm
Deforestation

Absorption Area River water Water Supply to Water Supply to

volume Irrigation Farm

Planting Seasons Harvested Crops Food Supply

 Rainfall Distribution & Planting Season

Sept Oct Nov Dec Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug

Start Farming
Idle Idle
Harvest
End drought
Start Farming
Harvest

Garut, Jawa Barat

 Water Balance
transpiration
transpiration

irigation evaporation
Surface
drainage

seepage

percolation
 Water Requirement
vegetation reproduction maturation

0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100
seedling plant flowering harvest

critical

important

Important enough

Not Important
2016 : Drought in Rainy Season
How to ensure
continuous water
availability in farm ?
 Geographic Challenge

Plantation field
Plantation field

river

Mekarmukti, Garut
Solution
 Water Flow and Farm Position

Farm
Water source

Farm

river farm Farm

farm river

A B
 Hold River Water
Long Storage

Long Storage
Position

River Farm Area Disposal Control

 Build and Refine Irrigation Path
Water source

river farm

farm

Irrigation

Water Holder
How to Deliver Water into Higher Farm

Artificial Water Storage

Farm

Farm
Pump
Farm

river
Energy
 Integrated Solution

Pump
Renewable energy source

Small
Irrigation

Embung

Mini Embung
Irrigation

Long Storage Water Storage

Farm
 Embung : Water Catching and Saving

Self-reliant investment
for water availability
 The Only One Solution is Reforestation

Forest

Marginal
Land
Thank You

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