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OVERVIEW EXPLANATION
ABOUT THE TOUR
Banua Village provides sustainable tourism with the theme of agroforestry.
’’Agroforestry‘’ is a made-up word, which combines ‘agriculture’ and ‘forestry’, called farming of making woods.
The purposes of thesis are, to solve the environment and economy of the region
with agriculture and forestry problems and poverty problems.
Villagers are engaged in agroforestry activities with the main objectives of earning stable income
and protecting biodiversity by agroforestry.
Agroforestry planted native timber and fruit trees of high commercial value,
and at the same time, cultivated and raised crops under the trees and farms while maintaining the forest.
In other words, agroforestry provides a mechanism to obtain stable income.
Agri tour is a tourism to enrich the lives of poor farmers, creating opportunities for additional income from agriculture
by interacting with villagers, visiting farms, experiencing agriculture, and running the program.
In this project, you will experience the agriculture tour, the lifestyle tour, and paper making.
Students who belong to the Mayuzumi seminar of Bunkyo university in japan are involved
in these business and trying to expand it with villagers.
ABOUT BANUA VILLAGE
Population is about 450 and they believe in Bali Hindu.
This village is located in the province of Bangli near the Kintamani Plateau, and the elevation of the area is 1000m.
The average income of the villagers is about 2.8 million Rp,
compared to average income of Indonesia is about 3.5 million Rp, most of them are below average.
Agriculture is the main industry, and specialty products of Bangli are, coffee, mandarin oranges, beef, and pork.
Although agriculture is the main industry, there has been a problem in no water for a long time.
Therefore, even in the dry season, a mechanism was needed to earn income from agriculture.
In this village, which is far from the tourist area and has no characteristics such as traditional crafts,
villager were forced to continue only agriculture or work tourist area.
Villagers need new small industry here, so that papermaking became a special product of this village.
Drasena is most proud product in Banua Village and It was created as one and only product from Banua village.
PAPERMAKING
It was created as an original product from Banua village.
In Banua village, once people tried to use Dracaena for paper-making, it worked very well.
People also noticed that Dracaena has high durability, since then, Dracaena is used as its main ingredient.
It is made from dracaena, after the dracaena leaves are harvested, the leaves are dried and goes into the blender.
It is made by mixing the finely ground dracaena with a naturally-occurring adhesive material
then scooped up with a wooden frame evenly.
The production process is completed by removing the final product
from the wooden frame and ridding it of the excess water.
It was born under the guidance of a traditional craftsman in Hosokawa City, Saitama Prefecture
, which has been officially recognized as a UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage.
It is exported to Japan and sold locally in Japan.
There are 60 different varieties of dracaena. Flower language called this “happiness”.
BALI HINDU LIFE
There is a family temple called “Sanga” in each house.
Family temples are usually built facing northeast, because there is a mountain called “Mount Agung“ in that direction.
”Mount Agung” has been the object of faith for a long time.
The colorful offerings that can be found all over Bali are called “Chanang“
since it is believed that God is everywhere in Balinese Hinduism.
People offer it every day to almost every place they live, such as buildings, kitchens, gates, and cars.
In addition, Chanang on the ground is a tribute to evil spirits, with the wish “Please do not do anything wrong”.
Whareas, Chanang placed higher than the ground is, a tribute to God.
Banua villager are proud of protecting their traditional lifestyle.
WATER TANK
Villager could not get water at all, and water service had not developed in the Kintamani plteau area.
Therefore, the residents had to purchase drinking water or use rainwater as living water.
Using rainwater caused conjunctivitis and had rough skin problems.
Moreover, main industry is agriculture for this village.
However villagers had difficulty getting the water needed to grow crops.
A watermill was built by Bali Biodiversitas Foundation. It is important for people in Banua village.
The tank stores water and pumped up from a river flowing 100 meters into the mountains.
By introducing Water turbines development be able to farming in the dry season,
and the lives of the people in Vanua village are gradually improving.
Because of the landslide of heavy rain in 2017, the turbine was buried in the earth and sand,
but it had already repaired by villager.
Now, we are making efforts to improve the quality of life for agriculture with suing water system.
SPECIAL PRODUCT INTRODUCTION
COFFEE BEANS
In the Banua village, Arabica and Robusta are cultivated in the gaps between farmlands to increase opportunities
for supplementary income from agriculture.
Necessary unpassed growing environments for coffee beans are:
suitable rainfall, sunshine, appropriate temperature, and soil.
The area where they meet these conditions are near the equator.
In short, Indonesian climate is suitable for growing coffee beans.
Mainly Sumatra Island is famous as a world-class coffee producing area.
In addition, Indonesia is the fourth largest coffee producer and exporter in the world.
Villager dream of some day producing much original coffee beans as a local specialty.
Coffee beans have two types. Which are Robusta and Arabica.
The characteristics of Robusta are resistance to pests and is cheaper.
The taste is stringent and has a strong smell as well as very little acidity.
The Arabica characteristic is that it is weak against the pests.
It has some bitter taste, but the smooth mouthfeel and light touch
to the palate, and a very rich flavor.
The producers of Robusta species account for 90%.
BANANA
In Indonesia, bananas are harvested at all seasons.
It is known as most productive fruits in Indonesia.
Indonesia is the 3rd most produced country in the world behind China and India.
Half of the bananas were produced in Java.
Banana has tendency to frow mold, and the mold causes tear in tress.
This is caused by the bad quality of fertilizer.
The banana leaf is used for feed to sterilize. Also, it is used for food wrapping.
The leaf has waterproof and easing bad smell. As a result, it is good for short-term container.
Chanang is known as offering container, made by banana leaf.
Banana leaf has demand, but the specially for the banana has a lot of seeds.
As a result, it is inappropriate for foods.
Generally, Balinese drink as juice, or eat with jam.
It has traditional food in Bali, called “Pisan Goreng ” which is fried bananas.
Some Balinese live by selling bananas to schools.
In Banua village, three or four kind of bananas are planted.
Bananas are planted between main products because bananas are secondary products.
BAMBOO
Bamboo is one of the local specialty.
Bamboo grows fast and easy to plant. The feature of bamboo is that the brunches are separated from the beginning. In Bali,
It grows up to 25m to 35m in 3 to 5 years.
It is commonly used for building material.
It has high durability and elasticity.
Recently bamboo architecture in Bali has been garnering attention around the world.
Manufacturing bamboo and weave thin strip of bamboo in temple, people make traditional crafts.
Black Bamboo is a black trunk and has beautiful green leaf. The trunk is green at immature tree,
but in 2 years they gradually turns black.
Black bamboo have a high rarity value, but no demand so that it is unfit for business.
MANDARIN ORANGE
In Bali, mandarin oranges are cultivated actively around Kintamani Plateau and are harvested twice a year.
Mt. Agung erupted several times and the falling ash caused
the turning of the leaves and fruits to black and is adversely affecting cultivation.
If Mandarin orange trees are short and the harvest is small, they are sold at a higher price.
If the trees of Mandarin oranges are tall and a large harvest is available, they are sold at a lower price.
There is a variety of mandarin oranges called
“Jeruk bali“ (“Jeruk” means citrus fruits in Indonesian), which looks like grapefruit.
Mandarin oranges are essential fruits for offerings in Balinese Hindu ceremony.
In the future, Banua villagers want to produce it as juice, or create a picking experience program for tourist.
JACKFRUIT
It looks like a big bump and attached around the trunk of the tree. It is known as a tropical fruit.
In agroforestry, they plant these trees because the fruit is highly valued.
Jackfruit is called the biggest fruit in the world, with the size of close to 1 meter large.
In addition, it is registered as Genes.
Jackfruit tastes like bananas mixed with pineapples. It has elasticity and a unique smell.
It is rich in nutrition for skin and it has an anti-aging effect. It is called “Nanka” in Balinese.
Main season is October to January. In other words, the rainy season.
GREEN BEANS
Preferably grown in warmer climate than colder area.
When the peas grow about 10 to 15 cm where it takes about a couple month, it is time to harvest.
In Indonesia, they are being sold for about 4000 Rp per 1kg.
Traditional food in Bali includes green beans called lawar, they are very common food at ceremonial occasion.
It is made by mixing ground meat, vegetables, coconuts, and spices.
The name changes depending on the type of meat, when pork is used, it is called “Lawar Babi”.
When chicken is used, it is called “Lawar Ayam.”
CHICKEN
Chickens for foods basically grow in free range,
but as you can see chickens for cockfighting are raised in bamboo basket.
Cockfighting is famous in Bali.
Cockfighting is a game of fighting chickens. Knifes are attached to the chicken legs. It is death royal.
Basically, it is forbidden to do gambling in Indonesia. Nevertheless, in the big ceremony, it happens in Bali.
However, they must donate all money to the temple.
Women are not allowed to participate in cockfights.
CYAYOTE
Chayote is called “lab siam” in Indonesian.
However, once the Japanese brought and spread the seeds to some areas around Java, Lombok, and Bali,
Indonesians refer to chayote as “jepang.”
Nevertheless, Chayote comes from tropical part of South America.
It is used for soups or sauteed food. It is a popular dish in Bali called “gerangasem”.
This is made by stewchicken, papayas, and trunk of unripe Bananas. It’s like curry soup.
BALI COW
The current variety of Bali cow is domesticated from traditional Java Banten cow.
The Bali cow is small. As a result, they are useful for small paddy fields.
In Bali supermarkets, condensed milk and skim milk are sold rather than normal milk.
Hindu people are forbidden to eat beef because the cows are treated as a holy animal.
However, in Bali Hindu, they treat it as normal food. Typical dish of Bali beef are, Sate sapi and Lawar.
Unfortunately, the beef’s texture is tough and lean, so people don’t prefer to eat the beef.
In Bali, cow dung is necessary for fertilizer. As a result, villager must keep cows in pasture lands.
Moreover, Country unions manage Bali cows.
In Banua village, growing cows are used for fertilizer, however, matured cows are sold as beef cattle.
Villager make supplementary income by buying a cattle, raising it and selling it.
MAHOGANY
Mahogany is fruit tree that is use for high value timber in agroforestry.
Mahogany is cultivated in the tropics in all over the world.
Supply can’t keep up with demand, so that other similar trees are sold as mahogany,
and environmental problems are caused by illegal logging.
It is process as luxury furnitures, flooring and instruments like a piano, because Mahogany has excellent durability.
They are manufactured for export to many different countries in the world.
The meaning of Mahogany is “golden collar.”
It is also called the “Treasure of Caribbean” because it was discovered in the Caribbean.
RED PEPPER
Essential spice for Indonesian cuisine.
It is not dried one. It is sold Fresh.
Red peppers are available for harvest all year around dur to its unique climate.
Indonesia has 3 types of red pepper.
Cabai besar: big pepper. It is not spicy, it is using for color.
Cabai keriting: shrunk pepper. It is long and thin, it is spicy.
Cabai Rawit: small pepper. It is planted in many house garden. It is super spicy.
It is main agricultural product of Banua village.
It helps villager’s livelihood by selling high price.