Making Farming Cool For Young Farmers

As an agrarian country, Indonesia is faced with a rather ironic predicament: more and more people have shied away from agriculture, mainly because of the stigma that farmers are a poverty-ridden segment. According to the Central Statistics Agency (BPS), in 2013, 60.8 percent of farmers were above the age of 45. Amid this crisis, some young people have made the deliberate choice to farm, and are even leading farmers' groups. Among them are I Gede A

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