Sustainability of Rice Farmers: Farming of Rural Communities in the Spiritual Meaning Perspective of Seed Storage

Abstract

This research aims to reveal in the spiritual of meaning contained in the farming of rice seed storage of rural communities in the village at Bone-Bone. This research uses a qualitative approach in the phenomenology of perspective and will be interpreted in the definiton of the symbolic interactionism. The result of this research indicates that the stages of the storage that begins with the way collect it in the form of malai rice that has been drained in a small house with called landak. Storage at a its own will be do it because the farmer glamorize the seed of rise with no treat in vain. The seed pf rice who are stored in a place that exalted so that would prevent anyone to overstep and and even stepped deliberately because it was considered not appreciate the seed of the rice which is the source of life. This action effect has meaning that for all beings actually have a close relationship with human life itself, treated well even of plants will be upheld especially if the relationship among humans and other animals is required ethics are maintained so constantly continue in the future, involving the meaning of an action to keep the sustainability of rice farming.