13 MAY When Chili Gives Hope - Fahrudin Rather than working for a company, government, or migrating to big cities, most in Suniabaru Village, Banjaran, Majalengka District, West Java prefer to become chilli farmers - a profession which gives hope.
09 MAY Palm Revitalization for Smallholders Is No Longer Just a Story The emergence of innovative financing gives hope to the independent smallholders to increase their productivity and improve their wealth.
06 MAY Growth Opportunity for Beef Cattle Industry The domestic beef cattle industry has great growth potential and Indonesia has the opportunity to develop its own.
04 MAY Kirana Megatara Promotes Good Agriculture Practices through Competitions One of the long-standing sustainability issues for natural rubber in Indonesia is the suboptimal quality of rubber produced by smallholder communities.
20 APR Integrated Financial Service to Support Innovative Financing Nestlé collaborates with telecom provider Telkomsel and Bank BTPN on a joint service to allows smallholder farmers to access BTPN financial services through Telkomsel’s network.
14 ARP Innovative Financing In Agriculture for Better Yield FAO estimates that the world population will grow from 7 billion in 2012 to 9.1 billion in 2050, which is a 30 percent increase. Food demand will grow faster as a result of accelerated urbanization and richer populations.
05 APR Agri-Finance: The Role of Informal Lending In the previous issue, we looked at farmers’ “access to finance” and some of the assumptions often made. For this issue, I wanted to look at the role of informal lending.
30 MAR Welcoming Bambang Harymurthi as PISAgro Advisor The PISAgro secretariat is proud to acknowledge Bambang Harymurti as part of PISAgro’s board of advisors as of February 2016.