Amaranth is one of the popular vegetables in the world. How many Amaranth species are in Indonesia? are all of them cultivars? how many wild species are existing in Indonesia? Unfortunately, the information about the diversity of Amaranth species in Indonesia is still limited.
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Indonesian food is sometime weird for some peoples. Peoples doesn’t like durian because the smell is to strong. Indonesian people say the best time to eat durian is at the ripe stage. It different compare to Thailand peoples. They eat earlier. But Indonesian extreme food is not only Durian. You can find many of them. Jengkol is the most popular. But, the strongest stinky food is Kabau. Let say, the stinky level is 3 times than Jengkol.
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Backyards is an important element in the Javanese settlement. Not only as an open space between homes or neighbors, but also as a means to support the fulfilment of daily needs. Backyard utilization of Javanese people, is the topic to remind the local wisdom of Javanese people in the Landbouw-kolonisatie area in Metro, Lampung. I was born in Metro and spent my first 20 years there.
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The value of BBC plants for Javanese peoples will discuss about Landbouw-Kolonisatie program and the correlation with the cultivation tradition of the BBC plants. The BBC plants are excluding rice as the most important crop in Indonesia. These 3 plants are banana, bamboo, and coconut. Why these 3 plants are essential for Javanese peoples?, because it related with the benefits of these 3 plants. In fact, these 3 plants are almost exist in daily activities of Javanese peoples in Lampung province.
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Sagittaria sagittifolia is one of the introduced vegetables in Indonesia. The species has a wide range of origin distribution. They originally did not come from tropical regions. This species natively comes from the boreal and meridional zones of Europe and Read more…
There are many Indonesian underutilized vegetable plants. Mostly they are native species, but some of them are introduced from some regions. Indonesia is a rich country with natural resources. And became a meeting point for trade routes from east to west and vice versa long ago. The interaction far before and during the Dutch colonial era was one of the reasons for the process of species introduction. The process is still continuing till today.
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