Applying urban farming in Indonesia: Thousand Islands residents succeed in cultivating fruits and vegetables

TABLOIDSINARTANI.COM, Thousand Islands --- Famous for its fishery products and marine tourism, the DKI Jakarta Provincial Government encourages the Thousand Islands as a Food Independent Island. Local residents have succeeded in developing Urban Farming in the form of various fruits and vegetables on sandy land. The development of Urban Farming has been continuously carried out by the DKI Jakarta Food, Maritime, and Agriculture Security Service (DKPKP) in the Thousand Islands since several years ago. In the past, local residents only relied on fisheries, while other food needs such as vegetables and fruit had to be imported from the mainland and outside the province. But now they are able to cultivate themselves. “Since last July, 600 Golden Melon plants, which are trial seeds from the KPKP Service, have been planted on an area of 600 square meters out of a total land area of 51,900 m2 with a total harvest of 150 Kg. Besides melons, various types of vegetables such as chilies, ...