Open AccessVILLAGE UNIT COOPERATIVE " TANI BAKTI " SEWON
Author(s) -
Soetrisno Soetrisno
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
agro ekonomi/agro ekonomi
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2541-1616
pISSN - 0215-8787
DOI - 10.22146/agroekonomi.16873
Subject(s) - hectare , arable land , unit (ring theory) , agriculture , population , geography , agricultural land , agricultural economics , socioeconomics , kilometer , agricultural science , archaeology , engineering , environmental science , mathematics , economics , mathematics education , demography , sociology , transport engineering
Background InformationVillage Unit Cooperative (VUC) "Tani Bhakti" lies in Subdistrict "Sewon", "Bantul" Regensy, Yogyakarta Special Region. It lies in the South of Yogyakarta Municepolity, around 7 kilometers (4.5 miles) from the town. The area of VUC "Tani Bhakti" covering 4 villages, over than 18000 hectares irrigated land. The biggest part of its population working on agriculture consisted both of land owning farmers and farmer-workers The rest working on small trading, handicraft,. housing construction, becak drivers, smallenterprises, governmental services, etc.Lurah is the head of local government. He is helped by several pamongs or officials. Each village consisting of around 15 sub villages all of those are headed by Kepala Dukuh. The average land owned by each farmer is less than a quarter hectare (around.15 hectares) most arable lands are fertile. They are volcanu and irrigated land_ 'I he total population is about 53.000 or about 12.000 families. Density of population is around 1600 per square kilometer