Social Relations Between Markets and Farmers: A Sustainable Development Model for Coffee Commodities

Abstract

The socio-economic characteristics are used in making judgments about the effects of different effects on economic welfare policies. This research focuses on the issue of coffee farming as one of the objectives of the study to create empowered and prosperous farming communities. Thus, the purpose of this study is to describe the socioeconomic characteristics of coffee farmers who have successfully innovated in Jember Regency, to describe and explain the political factors of local government policies in forming social relations between the government, markets and farmers, to describe how the character of the coffee commodity market according to farmers. Market players. This type of research is a mixed method research with quantitative and qualitative approaches. The survey was conducted on coffee farmers in several areas in Jember. A binary logistic model is used to show how these characteristics influence farmers' choice of marketing channels through which to distribute their produce. The results show that increasing the age and income of coffee farmers, the tendency to choose the middleman sales channel increases.