Effort to Improve the Interests of Young Generations in the Agricultural Sector to Attain Food Security in Indonesia

Abstract

This paper aims to investigate an effort to increase the interest of young people in the agricultural sector. The article is a review paper which has been collected more than twenty relevant scholar publications. The problem of the diminishing number of young farmers is quite worrying because the condition shall bring consequences in the long term that is a shortage of food production. Children from a farmer family rarely are willing to continue their parent business. Such a condition is fuelling by converting agricultural land to other purpose. This condition shall bring consequences, that is diminishing the number of food production in the future. Therefore, the lack of interest of young people in the agricultural sector is a serious problem that needs to be solved. The trend is that many young people "avoid" from the farmer's profession and this phenomenon must be seen comprehensively. We suggest three alternative ways to increase young people's interest in the agricultural sector, 1) through earlier education approach, 2) forming the conducive agribusiness climate approach and 3) using social media community approach.