
Name: Yudi Widodo
Email Address: yudi_atas@yahoo.com
Phone Number: 08123431273
Message: SUSTAINING CASSAVA YIELD AMID OF CLIMATE CHANGE IN INDONESIA
Yudi Widodo1), Sri Wahyuningsih2) and Yuliantoro Baliadi3)
1)Principle agronomist, Junior agronomist2) and Director of Indonesian Legume and Tuber Crops Research Institute (ILETRI) Jl. Raya Kendalpayak km 8 Malang 65127 Indonesia Email yudi_atas@yahoo.com  
ABSTRACT
As a tropical country Indonesia is harshly prone by climate change mainly caused by heat lift and rain decline. Thus, Indonesia abuts hard hitch to nosh people around 240 million. Indonesia main food is rice, to be balances by importing rice 2-3 million tons and wheat 9-10 million tons yearly. Recently show cassava production tends to rise in react to the larger need.  Cassava as the most capable carbohydrate source is not only used as basis of food, but also used as raw matter for various industries, fuel and feed. Cassava ruins neglect without any vital support from policy maker to meet the huge order both from domestic and global market. Indonesia imports cassava starch from Thailand at amount of 500,000 – 800,000 ton yearly. Indonesia cassava production in 2018 was roughly 23.4 million tons harvested from 1.2 million hectares with average yield around 19.3 t/ha. As upland crop depends on rain, so it is mostly grown in the early of wet season. There is a firm of fight in upland utilization for cassava with the other crops and forest. To meet the larger demand, hence cassava production must be increased by intensifying the cultural practices to get higher yield. To avoid climate change expanding areas for cassava development by converting forest is not allowed by REDD (Reducing Emission from Deforestation and forest Degradation). Sustaining cassava production by agro-forestry and intercrop is a way out. Cassava intercropping with various cereals and legumes able to help water lack caused by rainfall decline. Early reap is not proper way to escape cassava from water lack, since sustainability of cutting stores becomes a grim problem for the following season. To conserve water, applying manure from animal dunks and beneath crop residues is suggested. In a few sites extra irrigation had been done to evade from drought.   
Keyword: sustainable cassava yield
