Cash Crops Take Over Rice Paddies

ENGKUS Kusnadi's mobile phone rings. He wipes the mud off his hands and answers it. Another order to be filled. Engkus leaves the greenhouse and approaches his 1998 Toyota Kijang van parked in front of his very impressive home—a permanent structure with ceramic tiled floors, fully furnished. The 30-year-old man then drives to town in his van, to deliver the order that was just phoned in.

This is the life that Engkus now enjoys, one that

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