Analysis of Fertilizer Subsidy Policy in Supporting Food Security in Karawang District, West Java Province Policy 2013-1017
- DOI
- 10.2991/assehr.k.200529.171How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- food security, fertilizer subsidies, policy analysis
- Abstract
Fertilizer subsidies become a burden on the state budget (APBN) which is increasing, but there are various negative excesses in the implementation. There are various objectives to be achieved from the implementation of fertilizer subsidy policies, such as providing incentives to farmers to apply fertilization technology and increasing sustainable food production to food security. The implementation of the fertilizer subsidy policy in Karawang Regency is a problem that is also experienced by other regions. The study used qualitative methods, through interviews and observations on the ranks of the Ministry and the Government of Karawang Regency as the target areas for recipients of fertilizer subsidies. The results revealed that the fertilizer subsidy policy in Karawang Regency is still very much needed by farmers to increase agricultural production to support food security and the mechanism of fertilizer subsidy through RDKK (Definitive Plans for Group Needs) in accordance with the essence of effective and efficient fertilizer subsidies so that options need to be carried out the government includes transfer of fertilizer subsidies to output price subsidies and direct fertilizer subsidies to phasing out subsidies.
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- This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
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TY - CONF AU - Sri Sundari AU - Supandi Halim PY - 2020 DA - 2020/05/04 TI - Analysis of Fertilizer Subsidy Policy in Supporting Food Security in Karawang District, West Java Province Policy 2013-1017 BT - Proceedings of the 1st Borobudur International Symposium on Humanities, Economics and Social Sciences (BIS-HESS 2019) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 810 EP - 815 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.200529.171 DO - 10.2991/assehr.k.200529.171 ID - Sundari2020 ER -