Pupuk kandang, pupuk kompos, memupuk sawah: hasilnja berlipat ganda (Manure, compost, fertilising the rice field: the yield is multiplied) (Indonesian poster distributed in Indonesia)
A farm-extension poster in three panels: a water buffalo and animal-manure shed, a farmer turning compost beside heaped stacks, and two men carrying fertiliser boxes across a flooded rice field. A smiling farmer in a conical hat holds a sack at the foot, beneath the headline that the yield is multiplied. The tell is glittering-generalities: a promise of multiplied harvests, with a smiling farmer as the plain-folks face of the method.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- June 9, 1952
- Period
- Cold War
- Made by
- U.S. Information Agency (predecessor: State Department IIE program), Propaganda Posters Distributed in Asia series; imprint of the Indonesian Ministry of Agriculture and the U.S. ECA mission
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Truman Administration
- Leader
- Harry S. Truman
- Audience
- Foreign public
- Purpose
- Warn or inform
- Themes
- Economy and finance, Science and technology
- Event
- Cold War
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- U.S. National Archives (NARA), Record Group 306, Propaganda Posters Distributed in Asia, retrieved October 3, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (U.S. government work; NARA RG 306)
U.S. Information Agency / Department of State, June 9, 1952. National Archives, Record Group 306 (NAID 5729975, 306-PPA-75).
Text on the object
PUPUK KANDANG PUPUK KOMPOS MEMUPUK SAWAH HASILNJA BERLIPAT GANDA DARI KEMENTERIAN PERTANIAN DAN ECA MISSIE CHUSUSTEKNIK DAN EKONOMIE
MANURE FERTILISER COMPOST FERTILISER FERTILISING THE RICE FIELD THE YIELD IS MULTIPLIED FROM THE MINISTRY OF AGRICULTURE AND THE ECA SPECIAL TECHNICAL AND ECONOMIC MISSION
The imprint is in a small label at lower left; the sheet was photographed folded.
