Adoption of good agriculture practice for export-oriented snake fruit farming

Abstract

Snake fruit is one of the major agricultural export commodities in Indonesia. One of the efforts to improve the quality of snake fruit production and quality is through the adoption of Good Agriculture Practice (GAP) for export-oriented of snake fruit farming. This paper aims to analyse the level of adoption of GAP and factors related to the level of application of the GAP for export-oriented snake fruit farming. The level of application of the GAP was analysed using a 3-point Likert Scale, while the factors corelated to the level of application of the GAP were analysed using Spearman Rank correlation. The results showed that the level of application of the GAP for export-oriented snake fruit farming was in moderate category. Moreover, land area and capital were significantly strong and positive correlated to the level of application of GAP export-oriented snake fruit farming.