AbstrakDesa Oelbiteno merupakan salah satu desa dari empat desa yang ada di Kecamatan Fatuleu Tengah yang merupakan salah satu tempat wisata alam di Kab. Kupang-NTT. Daerah ini memiliki potensi pengembangan agroekowisata. Namun sistem pertanian rakyatnya masih bersifat konvensional. Karena itu, untuk peningkaan pertumbuahan eknomi desa dan masyarakat perlu adanya alih guna lahan dari pertanian campuran subsistem menjadi agroekowisata. Diikuti oleh peningkatan produktivitas lahan melalui perbaikan pola tanam lahan kering sesuai kearifan lokal. Kegiatan ini adalah pemberdayaan masyarakat melalui desain kebun model pertanian lahan kering, membimbing dan mendampingi petani agar usaha taninya dapat bernilai ekonomis dan mempunyai dampak ekologi yang baik. Dengan memanfaatkan beberapa objek alam (mata air dan kolam), produk pertanain lahan kering dengan pola tanam bedengan sejajar kontur, dan aplikasi pertanian organik berbahan local dengan pendekatan circular economy telah menambah pemahaman, sikap dan ketrampilan dalam rangka upaya perbaikan pertanian lahan kering yang sehat dan berkelanjutan.Kata Kuncicircular economy, pertanian organik, pola tanam lahan kering

Transformation of land uses from several semi-arid agroecosystems in Indonesia: forest to settlement, dryland agriculture, and others had affected to soil erosion. This study was conducted to evaluate soil erosion at semi-arid Manikin Baki watershed, West Timor, Indonesia. USLE method was used to predict soil erosion supporting ArcGIS 10.3 software. The results showed that the highest soil erosion occurred at dryland farming (60.22% with total land cover 11% of total areas), while the smallest one went to the forest (0.20% with total land cover 42% of total areas). Another finding that soil erosion at Manikin Baki watershed was dominated by class I (12,251.77 Ha; 64.38% of total areas), while the smallest one was majored for class IV (1.59% of total areas).

The agricultural sector is the leading sector in the economy of East Nusa Tenggara (NTT) in terms of its contribution to labor absorption. The large number of NTT people working in the agricultural sector indirectly shows that the economic development of the region also depends on contributions from the agricultural sector. The research aims to analyze the impact of the multiplier of superior commodities on the economy. The secondary data used in this study, namely the NTT Input-Output Table in 2020 obtained from the update of the NTT Input-Output Table in 2017 using the RAS method. The results showed that coffee commodities, livestock commodities, and poultry commodities and the results were categorized as superior commodities because they had a great impact on the formation of output as well as the welfare and absorption of labor in the NTT economy.

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