Social, Economic, And Culture Aspect On Application Of The Agricultural Machinery In Indonesia, Will Machines Change Buffalo?

Fikri Al-Haq Fachryana (Bogor Institute of Agriculture, Indonesia)

Will the modern agricultural change the traditional agricultural? Had ready citizen to take the modern agricultural with application of agricultural engineering? Will the traditional tools have been changed by modern machines? Because labors, buffalo, etc will have been changed by tractor and other machines in the next period and now too. Although our country cannot take all them, but we must take them so that our agricultural prospect will better. The problem is that Indonesia is agricultural country. Indonesia has many assets but Indonesia have many labors that work for agricultural. Indonesia has much university that develops agricultural engineering for their students. Nevertheless, since 20th century our agricultural could not have developed. Many machines not used. Many machines that had been made by professor in the university can not used or can not implicated because the problem of cultural, social and economic. If we out look, application of agricultural engineering will make some effect for our live in the country. Many aspect that will have made by application of agricultural engineering. Some aspect is social, economic and cultural of society in the country.
In the social aspect, using of machines, system of modern agricultural will make some new classification of society. If machines change the traditional tools, animal and labor, so new classification of society will have appeared. The first class of society is labor. Nevertheless, this labor is not for work on rice field directly, but this labor is worker for operation of machines and system. The second class of society is landowner. Landowner is person that has land for agricultural process. Landowner will gate income from hire cost of their land agricultural. Landowner can work on their land by their selves and without businessperson of agricultural. Nevertheless, if landowner cannot work on their land by their selves so their land agricultural will have been hired for business of agricultural. So the third class of society is businessman of agricultural.
The businessperson will develop agricultural business. They will gate income from cultivation of land agricultural. They will to product agricultural commodity. They will sell products to market.
The businesspersons do not have machines for work on their agribusiness. Therefore, they must hire machines from machines owner. So the next class of society is machines owner. Machines owner will gate income from hire cost.
Beside of, the most important class of society is machines industry. Machine industry has the important role on the development of agricultural engineering. Machines industry will to product machines for agricultural.
Beside of the effect of applications agricultural engineering for social society is changing education in the society of Indonesian. Because citizen is claimed in order to understand about agricultural machines and operation of them. So education of society will be increase. Because of application of agricultural engineering will make the other high technology develop in the country.
The application of agricultural engineering will make effects for economic in the country. The traditional agricultural will have been changed by modern agricultural with modern system and modern machines in the operation of them from the effect will make “precision agricultural “. Precision agriculture is the system of agricultural that used measuring, operation system, work on accurately by measuring instrument and machines agricultural.
Beside of the profession of citizen will move from agricultural labor to industry labor. Because machines will change labor for agricultural processing. So they will work for machines production in the industry. Some of them will work for machines rental and machines owner. Because of this situation, income of citizen will be increase.
Application of agricultural engineering will develop the industry because machines must been made by industry. Trading company for machines agricultural will develop too. Because they will be needed by agricultural processing.
Because of good processing for agricultural, so the next period will be increase the product of agricultural commodity. Therefore, necessary of society will be satisfied. Beside of prices of agricultural commodity will be more abundant because cost product will be more decrease. Therefore, society will be prosperous.
Export for machines of agricultural will be increase because many industries will to product agricultural machines. Therefore, we can give some questions. Will industries agricultural machine of Indonesian lose from Myanmar? Why machines industries still many import products? We must to improve it! Yes, we must to improve it by agricultural engineering application.