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The 2 International Seminar of Science and Technology
“Accelerating Sustainable innovation towards Society 5.0”
ISST 2022 FST UT 2022
Universitas Terbuka
Keywords: agricultural digitalization, farmer’s welfare, agricultural
innovation, the role of extensions workers.

1 INTRODUCTION
Indonesia is an agricultural country with most of the population
working as farmers. According to the 2018 Central Statistics Agency,
the number of agricultural households reached 27.68 million which
was divided into several agribusiness sub-sectors [1]. The largest and
most important sector of the agribusiness sector is the cultivation
sector or on farm. In the cultivation sector, sources of raw materials or
finished materials are produced, for example rice, vegetables, fruit,
tubers, coconut, and so on. One of the things that can influence why
the cultivation sector is the largest sector in Indonesia in agricultural
households is because of the gift of Allah SWT who has given two of
them in Indonesia, namely the dry season and the rainy season. In
each of these seasons, almost all types of plants can grow well in
Indonesia, so that Indonesian farmers do not have to struggle to adjust
the environment, so that plant cultivation activities can be carried out
throughout the plant period without any obstacles or seasons.
According to the Central Bureau of Statistics, in mid-2022, Indonesia's
population reached 275,773.8 million, which increased from 272,682.5
million in the previous year [2]. With the increase in population, it will
affect the amount of demand for basic necessities which is increasing.
Meanwhile, the amount of land for cultivation is decreasing. Various
strategies are implemented by the government so that the Indonesian
agricultural sector can increase food production which will then have
an impact on the welfare of farmers, namely the provision of People's
Business Credit services, the Triple Export Movement program, and
the establishment of the Agricultural Development Strategy
Command. "The three of them must be interrelated in order to realize
the welfare of farmers," said Minister of Agriculture Syahrul Yasin
Limpo [3]. In addition, during the new order era, the Indonesian
government also had various strategies in an effort to increase
agricultural production, namely through the Green Revolution

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