Comparing farming income prospects for cocoa and oil palm in Asahan District of North Sumatera

International Conference on Agriculture, Environment, and Food Security 2018

农业科学;生态环境科学

Nasution, S.K.H.^1 ; Supriana, T.^1 ; Pane, T.C.^1 ; Hanum, S.S.^2

Department of Agribusiness Faculty of Agriculture, Universitas Sumatera Utara, Medan, Sumatera Utara, Indonesia^1

Department of Agribusiness, Institut Pertanian Bogor, Jawa Barat Bogor, Indonesia^2

关键词: Business ownership;    Indonesia;    Oil palm;    Oil palm plantations;    Sumatra;   

Others  :  https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1755-1315/260/1/012006/pdf
DOI  :  10.1088/1755-1315/260/1/012006

来源: IOP

【 摘 要 】

Oil palm, rubber, and cocoa are the top three leading plantation commodities in Indonesia which are usually mutually converted one to each other. Oil palm plantation area and production in Indonesia over the past five years tend to increase, while the cocoa plantation area and production tend to decrease. According to the business ownership status, most of the cocoa plantations are cultivated by smallholders, while most of the oil palm plantations are cultivated by large private plantations. In North Sumatra, the cocoa commodity is the most often converted into oil palm. One of the factors that affect cocoa lands conversion into oil palm is the income prospects. The income analysis and the compare means analysis were used to see whether there are significant differences between the average income of cocoa and oil palm farming. The results showed that there are significant differences between the incomes of cocoa farmers and oil palm farmers, where the prospect of oil palm farmers' income is higher than the income of cocoa farmers.