Keragaan Lahan Sub-Optimal dan Perbaikan Produktivitas Melalui Kebijakan Daerah di Lampung

Agricultural land in Lampung is the land of sub-optimal as acid dry land, rainfed areas and wetlands. A study was conducted to study the extent and distribution of the lands of sub-optimal, as well as the policies of local governments in land productivity improvement. Acid dry land area of 2.7 million ha spread with 1.23 million ha is recommended for the development of food crops. Rainfed areas reported an area of 121 thousand hectares, while the area of swamp land is 108 thousand hectares which consists of tidal marsh and swamp are 56 thousand ha and 52 thousand ha, respectively. Government policies to improve the productivity of acid dry land more focused on increasing productivity of plantation crops and horticulture. While policies to increase the productivity of food crops, especially rice is more focused on the rainfed areas and wetlands. Government policies to take advantage of dry land under stands of annual crops for the attainment of food self-sufficiency is not yet visible. Program policies to optimize the productivity of rainfed and swamp land is also not optimal because it only been done on a narrow scale areas such as the provision of water pumps and drainage improvements in wetlands Sragi South Lampung, new paddy fields in Mesuji, and adaptation trials of new varieties in the swamp of Tulang BawangKeywords: sub-optimal land, acid dry land, rainfed, wetlands  Â