Local Food Crops and the Poor (The Case of the Three Geographical Regions of Kulon Progo Regency)
Authors: Widiyanto Dodi , Rijanta R. , Toekidjo Toekidjo 
Published: March 2016

<span id="tinymce" class="mceContentBody " dir="ltr">It is believed that local food crops are available widely in rural regions. However, not all of <span style="font-size: 9pt; color: #000000; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal;">the people consume them. The facts also show that local food crops are placed as <span style="font-size: 9pt; color: #000000; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal;">secondary sources of foodstuff. This research aims at (1) describing the profile of local food <span style="font-size: 9pt; color: #000000; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal;">crops consumed by the poor rural households and 2) exploring causes and mechanism of <span style="font-size: 9pt; color: #000000; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal;">the poor rural household in maintaining local food crops as their food sources in the three <span style="font-size: 9pt; color: #000000; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal;">different geographical regions of Kulon Progo Regency, namely the upland region, the <span style="font-size: 9pt; color: #000000; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal;">transitional region, and the lowland region of Kulon Progo Regency. A household survey is <span style="font-size: 9pt; color: #000000; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal;">conducted to achieve the above mentioned objectives. Respondents of this research are<br /><span style="font-size: 9pt; color: #000000; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal;">chosen purposively from the poor <span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt; color: #000000; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal;">households’ <span style="font-size: 9pt; color: #000000; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal;">data as listed by the Kulon Progo Regional <span style="font-size: 9pt; color: #000000; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal;">Planning Board to represent the three regions in the regency. Three districts in the regency <span style="font-size: 9pt; color: #000000; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal;">are selected to represent the three types of regions respectively, i.e: Samigaluh, Pengasih, <span style="font-size: 9pt; color: #000000; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal;">and Lendah. A questionnaire is distributed in order to collect the data from the selected<br /><span style="font-size: 9pt; color: #000000; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal;">household respondents. The findings of this research are (1) there are various kinds of local <span style="font-size: 9pt; color: #000000; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal;">food crops that were consumed by the respondents from three different geographical <span style="font-size: 9pt; color: #000000; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal;">regions. The researchers collected that there were 36 types of local food totally from these <span style="font-size: 9pt; color: #000000; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal;">three geographical regions, (2) there were also several motives that were important to be <span style="font-size: 9pt; color: #000000; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal;">described in order to explained the reason why the respondents processed local food crops <span style="font-size: 9pt; color: #000000; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal;">such as to be sold or to be consumed by themselves, (3) spatially, there are a specific <span style="font-size: 9pt; color: #000000; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal;">pattern of harvested local food crops based on the respondents perceptions in three <span style="font-size: 9pt; color: #000000; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal;">geographical areas: (i) based on nature, and (ii) based on human decision , (4) there were <span style="font-size: 9pt; color: #000000; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal;">also various methods of utilisation local food crops, such as boiled, fried, steamed, cooked <span style="font-size: 9pt; color: #000000; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal;">into intermediate products, or cooked into final commodities that were ready to be <span style="font-size: 9pt; color: #000000; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal;">consumed.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>