Rice farmers in Cokrokembang village, East Java province, suspect contamination from a nearby copper mine operated by PT Gemilang Limpah Internusa is to blame for recent crop failures. Water pollution ...

A copper mine in Pacitan district on the island of Java has been temporarily closed by Indonesia’s mining ministry after contaminated irrigation water allegedly harmed food crops belonging to 200 ...

Java could lose up to six million tons of rice in 2014, unless something is done immediately to regulate and reduce pesticide use. Brown planthopper populations have exploded due to the overuse of ...

TEMPO.CO, Bandung – West Java Governor Ahmad Heryawan said the recent discovery of rice made of plastic at Mutiara Gading Market in Mustikajaya district in Bekasi was a crime in the food sector. “It ...

JAKARTA, Aug 25 (Bernama): Indonesian authorities in Indramayu Regency, West Java, are planning to release 10,000 non-venomous snakes into paddy fields to combat rat infestations that threaten rice ...

Indramayu Regent Lucky Hakim (RIGHT) holding a non-venomous snake to be released in paddy fields to combat rat infestation. -- Photo credit: Indramayu Information Department. JAKARTA, Aug 25 (Bernama) ...

The labor-intensive rice harvesting practices of rural Java are commonly hailed as a system of equity and a prime example of "shared poverty." Closer examination, however, reveals a delicately ...

M.R. Fernando, Famine in a land of plenty: Plight of a rice-growing community in Java, 1883—84, Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, Vol. 41, No. 2 (June 2010), pp. 291-320 ...