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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
contribution in efforts to save the Indonesian economy. In addition,
during the Corona Virus (Covid -19) pandemic that hit the world, the
agricultural sector was one of the sectors that grew positively [7]. In
economic development, the agricultural sector plays a role as (1) food
supply provider; clothing; and boards, (2) suppliers of raw materials in
the industrial sector, (3) potential labor providers for the non-
agricultural sector, (4) producers of additional capital for new
investments, (5) as an additional source of income for the state
through taxes, (6) increasing agricultural production accompanied by
an increase in population income which has the potential for industrial
products, and (7) as a source of foreign exchange from agricultural
export commodities [8].
The importance of the agricultural sector for developing countries in
terms of the country's economic development is not directly
proportional to the welfare of the farmers themselves, as can be seen
in the number of smallholders who as subjects of agricultural
households mostly only control land of less than 0.5 ha, in addition to
the number of workers or farm laborers is also still large. According to
the 2018 Central Statistics Agency, the majority of farmers belonging
to the smallholder group reached 58.73%. Meanwhile, for villagers,
the area of land tenure is an indicator of their level of social status, and
most of the farmers live in rural areas [9]. In addition, one of the
indicators measuring the level of farmers' welfare in the form of the
Farmer's Exchange Rate explains that if the farmer's exchange rate is
low, the farmer cannot meet the needs of his life and his family
properly, but if the farmer's exchange rate is high, the farmer will
experience prosperity [10]. Thus, the farmer's exchange rate ratio can
be used as an indicator of farmer welfare, but it is not entirely correct,
because the welfare of farmers and their families is qualitative, while
the farmer's exchange rate is quantitative [11].
Agricultural digitalization is an innovation of appropriate agricultural
technology that can be adopted by farmers. Within this digitization,
there are various technologies such as: sensors, robots, digital
communication tools, blockchain, computational decision and analysis

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