| dc.description.abstract | Tobacco is one of the main plantation commodities in Indonesia. The income
from the tobacco processing industry is a contributor to East Java's GRDP of 8.3%
with a total production of 84,524 tons and a planting area of 100,658 hectares in
2019, this figure is greater than other provinces. However, compared to the previous
year, the number of tobacco production decreased. This is due to the impact of La
Nina which causes unfavorable conditions so that it has the potential to collapse,
decreased planted area, decreased crop prices, inefficient farming systems, and
lower prices. The phenomenon that occurs in Indonesia is that tobacco farmers
experience several marketing difficulties, the weak position of farmers in the
market who cannot participate in determining prices, price transparency and
information between farmers and middlemen are one of the causes of the weak
participation of farmers in tobacco marketing. The involvement of farmers in
marketing their crops can be seen from the decisions taken by farmers in choosing
marketing institutions.
This study aims to determine (1) tobacco farming marketing institutions in
East Java, (2) the factors that influence the selection of tobacco farming marketing
institutions in East Java, (3) the influence of farmer participation in farmer groups
on the choice of tobacco farming marketing institutions in Java. East. The method
of determining the research location area is using the purposive method, namely
East Java Province. The research method uses descriptive and analytical
methods.The data collection method is secondary data through data in the 2014
plantation business household survey or SKB2014 by the 2013 Agricultural
Sesus.The data analysis method used in the first problem formulation uses a
qualitative descriptive method, while the second problem formulation uses binary
logistic regression and the third uses a qualitative descriptive method. The results showed that: (1) Tobacco farming marketing institutions in East Java
consisted of collectors and non-collectors (companies or industries, cooperatives,
markets). Most of the tobacco farmers in East Java distribute their harvests to
traders because of easy access, while the number of farmers who market to
companies, cooperatives and markets is not high. (2) Variables that significantly
influence farmers' choice of marketing institutions for tobacco farming in East Java
are education, age, land area, farmer group members, and low price constraints,
financing constraints. Some of the factors above indicate that farmers tend to choose
non-collecting traders (companies, markets, cooperatives) based on education, age,
land area, and members of farmer groups. (3) Farmer group membership will
increase farmers' opportunities to market tobacco directly to other marketing
institutions without going through collector traders. Based on these results,
marketing institutions are very important to determine the welfare of farmers
through prices, farmers should take part in the participation of farmer groups or
other institutions to obtain clear information and price certainty, and be efficient in
marketing their products. | en_US |
