THE ANALYSIS OF INCOME, EXPERIENCE IN FARMING AND ORANGE FARMERS’ PERCEPTION IN CHANGING ORANGE FARMING TO OIL PALM FARMING

Sukri, M and Retno , Agustina Ekaputri (2009) THE ANALYSIS OF INCOME, EXPERIENCE IN FARMING AND ORANGE FARMERS’ PERCEPTION IN CHANGING ORANGE FARMING TO OIL PALM FARMING. Undergraduated thesis, Fakultas Ekonomi UNIB.

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Abstract

Before 2004, orange plantations in Nagari Ujunggading, district of Lembah Melintang, regency of Pasaman Barat became one of Sumatera Barat is good quality product that reach the market in neighbor provinces. Observing the fact that the exploitation of orange farm areas and orange price rates have fallen down, then the orange farmers change their farming from orange farm to oil palm farm. This transformation is basically to increase family incomes. From the result of applying double linear regression, it can be obtained this formulation : Y = 10,112 – 1,3919732 X1 – 0,0757294 X2 + e The result of determination coefficient R2 equal to 0,941, means that the this formulation the variable of income and farming experience is 94,1 %, while the rest is 5,9 % explained by the other factors out of this research. From t-test, it show that each independent variable in this research ; the income and the farming orange experience have significant influence on the transformation of orange farming to oil palm farming. On the other hand, descriptive analysis is applied to find out the perception influences of orange farming. It shows that the respondent have a bad perception toward orange farming and they see that orange farming has not been suitable to developed. Therefore, most of orange farmers in Nagari Ujunggading, district of Lembah Melintang, regency of Pasaman Barat try another option by transforming their orange farming activities to oil palm farming because the respondent find out that oil palm farming gives better income than orange one.

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