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when the harvest arrives, illuminated bright and clear, golden yellow rice stretching as far as the eye can see, waving in the wind as if hinted at the hope of improving the welfare.

In addition to the rhythmic shaggy ears that accompanied the vibrant wheels of the village economy. Village children did not miss partying with jogging at the embankment enjoying the cheerfulness of their parents, reaping hope.

That used to be, now it seems to be a happy memory in a dendang. Rarely do we meet the joys of the children who accompanied the harvest party that his parents did.

The crisis experienced by rice farmers, especially those with narrow land and peasants, will likely continue to twist and strangle the necks of the peasants. After being hit by a storm of scarcity of fertilizer, to sell its own crops in the form of unhulled grain only farmers have difficulty obtaining a fair price, whereas the price of rice in the market is quite high. In economic theory, it is this kind of thing called rente or margin, where there is a njomplang margin between selling grain and rice.

The problem is not only in the amount of rent or margin, but who are the beneficiaries or those who make a profit, so that farmers who should receive more profits because of their farming business risks are also bigger, but the reality is only receiving a relatively smaller profit.

Farmers always get into trouble and become victims because of their weakness. The difficulties of rice farmers that often occur from the difficulty of buying seeds and fertilizers to start planting rice. Indeed, they have long been very dependent or deliberately made dependent on large companies that provide excellent seed providers that can not be produced by farmers, especially small farmers. And if available, planting with superior seeds requires other inputs that must be provided such as fertilizers and medicines that are also produced by the big companies, otherwise the superior seeds will not grow according to their superiority. Seeing all this, again the beneficiaries are not farmers but bigger profits are sucked by big companies.

Then the question of capital, in general the farmers looking for capital to plant rice with very high interest. For example, borrowing one million rupiah for several months, and returning one million five hundred rupiah after harvest or sometimes also by replacing the debt with a percentage of the crop equivalent to the value of the money to be returned.

The price of fertilizer is also not reached by the farmers despite the standard set by the government's selling price. Some time ago, at least in Jombang, one saknya to reach Rp. 100.000,00 which should not exceed Rp. 52,500.00. This fact has resulted in rice farmers getting into trouble when their crops are priced very low with a variety of quirky classical reasons for middlemen, such as excessively high water content.

On the other hand, the costs of other inputs of agricultural production such as pesticides, fertilizers and labor costs have increased many times. The increase in cost is due to one of the reasons triggered by the government's decision to reduce fuel subsidies, basic electricity tariffs and others, all of which have an impact on agricultural input prices.

Well, from here should be in economic calculations, the basic price of purchasing grain should indeed rise. Because, the price of agricultural inputs in real increase faster than the increase in output prices or agricultural products. If the price of grain is not raised, the income and welfare of the farmers will decline further. In fact, farmers are among the majority in this country.

Unlike farmers in developed countries that are still subsidized, including export subsidies. While our farmers, let alone get export subsidies, farmers instead "dilaparkan" first before pitted with prosperous farmers from the country opposite with imported products.