Driving Change

“Shovel...shovel...shovel deep down, planting corn in our garden...”

July 29, 2008

The childhood song is in line with the hard work done by the farmers in Iligai village, Kecamatan Sikka, Maumere, East Nusa Tenggara.

Some 95 percent of the community in Iligai work as farmers. The rest are laborers or drivers. The condition that forced them to become farmers is related to their livelihoods. Cacao, copra and candlenuts are main products of their agriculture grown here.

But in line with the changes in the agriculture sector,

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