Farming Group Institutions in Cocoa Business Analysis of the Role and Their Effect On Productivity and Income in Banyuwangi District

Abstract

Jambewangi Village has a high potential in producing cocoa because there are many people's cocoa plants that are cultivated either in the yard of the house or in the forest. The high cocoa production produced in Jambewangi Village is not balanced with its declining productivity due to the lack of optimal care for cocoa plants and not in accordance with GAP (Good Agricultural Practice). The implementation of GAP should be guided and directed by a farmer group institution in order to increase the productivity of cocoa, but the farmer group is suspected to be still not optimal in carrying out its role in accordance with the regulation of the minister of agriculture Number 67/Permentan/SM.050/12/2016. Another problem is that there is an increase in cocoa productivity but it is not supported by the existence of marketing institutions and their functions in distributing goods, information, or cash which is described by the cocoa commodity supply chain in Jambewangi Village. The existence of a clear and good supply chain will support the creation of a good and integrated workflow from upstream to downstream. The researcher wants to examine the institutional role of farmer groups (as a learning platform, a vehicle for cooperation and production units) and their effect on productivity and income as well as the relationship between farmer characteristics and perceptions of farmer groups using correlation analysis, and existing cocoa supply chain in Jambewangi. The data analysis method used is scoring analysis, rank spearman and t-test. The sampling method used is simple random sampling with 30 respondents used and the research location is in Jambewangi Village, Banyuwangi Regency. The existence of this research can be useful for farmer groups in providing direction to members to increase production from cocoa plants and can increase cocoa farmers' income by re-stimulating the role of farmer groups based on the 2016 Ministry of Agriculture.