Jatiluhur irrigation project was started in 1964; and it is developed to obtain approximately 240,000 hectares of new rice-field areas in sue that estimated 300,000 tons of rice will be produced on top of the product usually achieved per year. The consequence of it one might expect that when the yield of rice is increased, then the welfare state of the corresponding farmers living on the areas would be also improved, i.e. in the district of Karawang, Subang and Purwakarta. Results of the survey show, that the daily food consumption of the farmers living at those areas was likely similar in term of quality and variability of foodstuffs. Less than 1/2 kg of rice were consumed daily, by the landowners and the labor-farmers, as well per person. It seems there was no seasonal variation on the food consumption pattern. Daily calorie and protein intake per person were below the requirement. More than half of the farmers were underweight, and approximately 10% of the labor-farmers living at the coastal area were severely underweight.
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