Sistem Usaha Tani Perladangan Gilir Balik Masyarakat Dayak Meratus di Desa Haratai Kecamatan Loksado Kabupaten Hulu Sungai Selatan

Abstract

The failure of green revolution has encouraged people to return to a locally based sustainable agriculture. The Dayak community has implemented this farming system, which is called turn-back cultivation, since their ancestor. However, after many years, this system has suspectedly changed. Thus, this study aims are: (1) to describe turn-back cultivation activities from pre-planting until post-harvesting, (2) to study Dayak community local wisdom on turn-back cultivation, (3) to analize ecology level which revelant to sustainable agriculture, and (4) to determine turn-back cultivation economic feasibility. The process of turn-back cultivation always through the regularly stages, which are some of them were preceded by the traditional rituals. Those stages have nature conservation/preservation values. Beside, turn-back cultivation have local wisdoms in terms of conservation/ecology, food security and sociocultural. The ecological level was catagorized as intermediate because some activities and inputs were not suitable to sustainable agriculture requirements. Based on economic feasibily by using Revenue-Cost Ratio (RCR) criteria, turn-back cultivation was not feasible.