The Traditional Agricultural System of the Tolaki Community in Puuwanggudu Village, Asera District, North Konawe Regency (1965–2022)

Abstrak

This study aims to analyze the systems of land cultivation, planting, and harvesting in the traditional agriculture of the Tolaki community in Puuwanggudu Village, Asera District, North Konawe Regency. The research employed the historical method, which includes the stages of heuristics, source criticism, and historiography. The findings reveal that the Tolaki people continue to preserve their ancestral agricultural traditions through communal cooperation known as samaturu. The land cultivation process consists of several stages: monggiki ando’olo (land selection), mohoto o’wuta (cutting the soil), mosalei (clearing shrubs), monduehi (felling large trees), humunu (burning), meonggai (cleaning residues), and mewala (fencing). The planting system involves motasu (dibbling), mosaira (weeding), and mete’ia (protecting crops). Harvesting is carried out once a year (April-May) when the rice turns yellow, through the stages of mosowi (reaping), mowiso i’ala (storing rice in the granary), and culminating in the harvest festival known as monahu nda’u.

Kata kunci

• Local Wisdom
• Samaturu
• Tolaki community
• Traditional Agriculture