Abstract
Wet-rice cultivation in Bantimurung, a mountain village located on the upper reaches of the Pangkajene river, is characterized by non-plow cultivation in small swales surrounded by limestone cliffs. In Labakkang, a small town located near the mouth of the same river, the plow is a fundamental tool for rice growing. Besides rice cultivation, fish-raising and salt-making are important activities. This is an area where landuse is more or less commercialized. From the view point of riceculture geneology, Bantimurung's rice culture is genuine Malay, as indicated by the practice of appocca, or preparing the soil by trampling, while that of Labakkang is characterized by many elements of Indian origin. South Sulawesi's agriculture can thus be seen as a combination of mountain agriculture, which is economically self-contained and culturally more Malay, and coastal agriculture, which is more market-oriented and more Indian in origin.
