Land is the main input in agricultural production and also a wealthgenerating asset for farmers. There are three common forms of agricultural land ownership:owned land, rented land, and sharecropped (kedokan) land, where each of them are directly affects the farming performance. The purpose of this study was to analyze the effect of land ownerships on farm production, labor use, and farm economic efficiency. The sample used in this study were 150 farmers equally distributed in each ownership group from a population of 1039 farmers. Cobb-Douglas production function, F-test, and RC ratio were used to estimate production function, the difference in labor use, and farm economic efficiency. The results showed that rented land has the highest productivity followed by owned and sharecropped (kedokan) land.Meanwhile, the sharecropped (kedokan) land has the lowest labor use, followed by rented and owned land. However, in term of profitability, owned land is the highest followed by rented and sharecropped land. The results also showed that sharecropped (ngedok) as an informal contract farming between farmer and landlord was the best economic choice for the landlord. Furthermore, to improve farmers welfare, the landless farmers should be facilitated to own their own land.
<p>The revitalization of farmer organizations has become the central paradigm in agricultural development. In Indonesia, increasing farmer participation in farmer groups, associations and cooperatives is the strategy to revitalize farmer organizations. This study aimed to determine the factors influencing farmers' participation in farmer groups, associations and cooperatives. This study employed data from the Sugarcane and Tobacco Plantation Farm Household Survey in 2014, consisting of 8,831 (70.73%) sugarcane farmers and 3,645 (29.27%) tobacco farmers. Logistic regression analysis was used to identify the factors contributing to farmers' participation in each organization. The results showed that harvest area, access to extension and contract farming positively affect farmers’ participation in organizations. Farmers' age and education positively affect their participation in associations and cooperatives but do not significantly affect their group participation. Land tenure has an ununiform effect on farmer participation in each organization. Tenant farmers are less likely to participate in farmer groups and cooperatives, but they tend to participate in associations. Meanwhile, the owner farmers are less likely to join cooperatives. Government support positively influences farmer group participation, shows a negative effect on participation in associations and has a non-significant effect on participation in cooperatives. Finally, farmers' wealth gives a positive effect on their participation in cooperatives, a negative effect on their participation in associations and a non-significant effect on farmer groups. These results depict that farmer groups are more inclusive than cooperatives and associations.</p>
Shallots are one of the vegetable commodities that are consumed by the community regularly as a daily necessity. Shallot commodity prices in the market tend to fluctuate, because the production process is influenced by the season. This research was conducted with the aim of studying the effect of price and ease of access on the purchasing decisions of shallots by traders at Pasar Baru Jati Asih Bekasi. This research is a survey with a quantitative approach, using a sample of 200 traders which is a purposive sample, taken as a quota from the population, namely all vegetable traders in Pasar Baru Jati Asih Bekasi. Data was collected by questionnaire, using data analysisStructural Equation Modelling(SEM). The results showed that price had a positive and significant effect on ease of access, ease of access had a positive and significant effect on purchasing decisions for shallots, while price did not have a significant effect on purchasing decisions even though it had a positive effect. Keywords: price, access, buying decision
The strategy of developing sustainable vegetable commodity in the future is not only directed at efforts to develop production in accordance with needs but strengthening institutional farmers is an important part to consider. The study aims to design a structural model of the role of institutions in the development of cayenne agribusiness systems. The study was conducted in Tarakan City, North Kalimantan as a small island of border area. Data collection is done by qualitative method. Interpretative Structural Modeling (ISM) data analysis techniques is used to analyze data or information about institutions that play a role in the development of cayenne agribusiness systems and structural models of the role of institutions in developing cayenne agribusiness systems. The results showed that, the structural model of the institution’s role in the development of the cayenne agribusiness system is based on key actors including the cooperative and SMEs, and the agricultural technology assessment center.
Agricultural extension plays a crucial role in the Indonesian Agricultural Revitalization Program for the 2005-2025 periods, where sugarcane is one of the fourteen priority crops. The provision of an agricultural extension was aimed to increase the income and productivity of sugarcane farmers. This study aimed to evaluate the effect of agricultural extension access on smallholder sugarcane farmers' performance in Indonesia. This study used data from the 2014 Indonesian Sugarcane Farm Household Survey, consisting of 8,831 farmers. This study employed propensity score matching to estimate the effect of access to an agricultural extension on several outcome variables. These variables were gross value-added (GVA), net value added (NVA), labor productivity (LP), land productivity (LDP), net income (NI), and remuneration of family labor (ROFL). The result shows that having access to an agricultural extension increases GVA by 40.5%, NVA by 40.3%, labor productivity by 42.8%, and NI by 40.2%. However, access to agricultural extension insignificantly affects ROFL due to the differences in family working units. Also, farmers with Agricultural Extension access have 13.7% lower land productivity than non-Agricultural Extension farmers since the former has lower input use intensity than the latter. These results suggest that providing agricultural extension service is adequate to improve sugarcane farmers' economic performance.
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