Kontribusi Usahatani Kakao terhadap Pendapatan Rumah Tangga Petani di Desa Pangsan, Kecamatan Petang, Kabupaten Badung

Abstract

Contribution of Cocoa Farming to Farmers Household Income
in Pangsan Village, Petang District, Badung Regency

The study aims to determine the sources of cocoa farmers' income, and the large
contribution of cocoa farming to the income of the farmers' households in Pangsan
Village, as well as to find out the physical management practices and postharvest
handling applied by the cocoa farmers. The technique of determining the sample was
by using proportional random sampling and the sample was taken randomly to select
the sample by lottery method with the number of samples of 34 cocoa farmers. The
data collection was conducted from early February to the end of February 2017. The
study used farming analysis to calculate net income and total household income of
cocoa farmers during 2016. The results showed that cocoa farming has the highest
contribution of 70.10% of the total household income of farmers amounting to Rp.
85,954,990.80 / year with an average income of Rp. 60,252,258 / year. The physical
management practices of cocoa farming applied by cocoa farmers in Pangsan Village
are in accordance with the physical management practices in the cocoa Good
Agricultural Practices (GAP) guidelines, and it is known that farmers did not apply
Good Handling Practices (GHP) to postharvest handling.