STRATEGI PENGENDALIAN ALIH FUNGSI LAHAN PERTANIAN PANGAN KE PERKEBUNAN DI  KABUPATEN MUKOMUKO   PROVINSI BENGKULU

Accelerating conversion of agricultural land to non-agricultural uses becomes the
main issue in agricultural sector development. This paper discusses the phenomena
of land uses changes, especially paddy field conversion in Mukomuko Regency, and
strategy to control them. Agricultural development in the globalization era needs
serious attention and has to be focused on farmer’s welfare. In the legal aspect,
effective regulatory measures in protecting the productive agricultural land with
penalty of violation should be enacted as a basis of allocating permanent
agricultural land and along with mainstreaming agricultural land conversion,
especially irrigated paddy field has to be integrated with regional spatial
development planning.