Marketing and Economic Empowerment of Rubber Farmers in Gunung Toar Sub-district of Kuatan Singingi Regency: Comparative Study of Auction and Conventional Marketing Systems

Rosnita, Eri Sayamar, Roza Yulida, Deby Kurnia, Yulia Andriani, Aung Ezra Alfatah

2018

Abstract

This research aims at comparing the rubber marketing of auction and conventional systems:1) Analyze the profile of rubber farmers 2) analyze cost, margin, efficiency, and proft in both systems, 3) analyze the rubber farmers' empowerment. The research used Survey method to 89 rubber farmers as samples using Slovin formula. The sample consisted of 39 rubber farmers with marketing of auction system and 50 rubber farmers with conventional system. The research was conducted in Gunung Toar Sub-district of Kuantan Singingi Regency from September 2016 until September 2017.The Data analysis used descriptive analysis of respondent profile and marketing system, different test analysis was conducted on margin, efficiency, and profit in both marketing system by rubber farmer in Gunung Toar Sub-district. The results of this study illustrate that the profile of farmers of the auction system comes from male and female but to conventional farmers are all male and both are in productive age. Education in auction farmers is dominated by high school and elementary school in conventional level. Land ownership area > 2 Hectares with status as owner of auction farmers and < 2 Hectares on conventional farmers with status of farm workers and tenants. There are differences in cost, margin, efficiency and profit between the auction system and the conventional system.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Rosnita., Sayamar E., Yulida R., Kurnia D., Andriani Y. and Ezra Alfatah A. (2018). Marketing and Economic Empowerment of Rubber Farmers in Gunung Toar Sub-district of Kuatan Singingi Regency: Comparative Study of Auction and Conventional Marketing Systems. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Natural Resources and Sustainable Development - Volume 1: ICNRSD, ISBN 978-989-758-543-2, pages 439-445. DOI: 10.5220/0009904300002480

in Bibtex Style

@conference{icnrsd18,
author={Rosnita and Eri Sayamar and Roza Yulida and Deby Kurnia and Yulia Andriani and Aung Ezra Alfatah},
title={Marketing and Economic Empowerment of Rubber Farmers in Gunung Toar Sub-district of Kuatan Singingi Regency: Comparative Study of Auction and Conventional Marketing Systems},
booktitle={Proceedings of the International Conference on Natural Resources and Sustainable Development - Volume 1: ICNRSD,},
year={2018},
pages={439-445},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0009904300002480},
isbn={978-989-758-543-2},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the International Conference on Natural Resources and Sustainable Development - Volume 1: ICNRSD,
TI - Marketing and Economic Empowerment of Rubber Farmers in Gunung Toar Sub-district of Kuatan Singingi Regency: Comparative Study of Auction and Conventional Marketing Systems
SN - 978-989-758-543-2
AU - Rosnita.
AU - Sayamar E.
AU - Yulida R.
AU - Kurnia D.
AU - Andriani Y.
AU - Ezra Alfatah A.
PY - 2018
SP - 439
EP - 445
DO - 10.5220/0009904300002480