FOOD SECURITY POLICY IMPLEMENTATION IN KUTAI BARAT DISTRICT

Abstract

The Regional Government of West Kutai Regency in increasing food ingredients cannot be separated from the intensification, extensification and diversification policies which are also strengthened by the Regulation of the Regent of West Kutai Number 26 of 2012 and Regional Regulation Number: 336/919/DKP-TU.P/2022 concerning the Utilization of Food Yards. Sustainable but on the other hand increasing food supplies also face challenges such as conversion of paddy fields, damage to irrigation canals and technological stagnation. The purpose of this study is to describe and explain the implementation of food security policies in West Kutai Regency as well as to describe and analyze the supporting and inhibiting factors that influence the implementation of food security policies in West Kutai Regency. The number of informants in this study were 7 people consisting of 4 employees and 3 farmers. This type of research uses qualitative methods to describe and explain the implementation of food security policies in West Kutai Regency. Data collection techniques using the method of observation, interviews and documentation. Data analysis using interactive models. The results showed that the implementation of food security policies in West Kutai Regency in increasing local food crop production went through three stages, namely the first through an intensification policy by optimizing existing agricultural land, for example the use of fertilizers, superior seeds and medicines, but in implementing policies Agricultural intensification requires monitoring of the scarcity of subsidized fertilizers and also the distribution of superior rice seeds to farmers. The second is the extensification policy, namely expanding the area that converts unproductive forests into agricultural land. And the third is the diversification policy, namely the diversification of agricultural businesses to increase farmers' household income, for example livestock business