How Small-Scale Farmers Survive
Tuesday, January 24, 2006
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The millers high offer did not interest Wartono. Even though a price of Rp2,000 per kilogram was offered for his husked rice grain, this farmer in Tanjung Mulia village in North Sumatra, preferred to store his husked rice to feed the seven members of his family.
He did not harvest much, its true, just 2 tons from the third of a hectare of land which he owns. He has calculated that, after production costs of Rp2.4 million per hectare, his net pro
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