Implementasi Program Food Estate di Desa Ria-Ria Kecamatan Pollung Kabupaten Humbang Hasundutan Provinsi Sumatera Utara

Abstract

The implementation of the Food Estate Program is a National Strategic Project (PSN) policy in an effort to realize national food security and welfare of farmers. This program is implemented in an integrated manner through large-scale agricultural activities (>25 hectares) with the concept of technology-based industrial agriculture, capital, and modern organization and management. The implementation of this program cannot be said to be optimal because it has not been able to have an impact on the welfare of farmers, especially to meet national food needs. The purpose of this study is to find out in detail how the implementation of the Food Estate Program in Ria-ria Village, Pollung District, Humbang Hasundutan Regency, can be used as input for the relevant government, considering that this program has only been running for 2 years. This research uses descriptive research methods with a qualitative approach. Data collection techniques were carried out by means of interviews, observations, literature studies, and documentation related to the Food Estate Program in Ria-ria Village, Pollung District, Humbang Hasundutan Regency. Based on the data that has been obtained, further qualitative data analysis is carried out using the theoretical approach proposed by Donald Van Meter and Carl Van Horn that the implementation of public policy is influenced by several variables. These variables include; policy standards and goals, resources, characteristics of the implementing organization, communication between organizations, disposition of implementors (attitudes of implementers), as well as the economic, social and political environment. Through this research, it can be seen that the implementation of the Food Estate Program in Ria-ria Village, Pollung District, Humbang Hasundutan Regency, was carried out in a hurry and still not running optimally. The main reason is that there is no implementing regulation that describes in detail the Food Estate Program. Standards and targets are interpreted differently by each ministry involved in the Operational (Transition) Team as the implementer of the Humbang Hasundutan Regency Food Estate Program. There is no clear procedure that ensures Food Estate farmers benefit from working with investors/off takers and even potentially creating new middlemen models. Farmers in Ria-ria Village as a target group are not involved in determining the area and type of agricultural commodities to be planted. The Food Estate Program without looking at the socio-cultural conditions of the community, in its implementation has not been optimal.