KERAGAAN BENIH HORTIKULTURA DI TINGKAT PRODUSEN DAN KONSUMEN (Studi kasus : Bawang merah, Cabai merah, Kubis dan Kentang)

Abstract

Seed and seedling is one of main factors in determining the product of horticultural crops. The
use seed production on horticultural crops, could be produced by government institution or
private sector. In the last 21 years (1980 – 2001) the government has released 183 improved
variety of vegetables, including 26 red onion, red chili, cabbage and potato. These number is
much Owen compared to number of improved variety of crops. For instance 105 new
improved varieties for rice, 50 varieties for corn and 33 varieties for soybean. The role of
private sectors on the horticultural seed is much more dominant to the high demand
commodities and cannot be produced by the farmers it can be seen on the production of red
chili seed compared to three other commodities. The performance of seed on the level
consumer, represented by the farmers in the area production central, namely red onion, red
chili in the central Java Province, and potato and cabbage in North Sumatera Province. The
findings of the study are : the farmers are influencing by the group on the selection of seed to
be use, the role of field extension worker is very limited, the seed has been use by the farmers
before introducing by government, at any planting time the farmers not always use a new
seed, even there are some farmers never used improved variety of potato.