Analysis of independent oil palm farming income after replanting in Muaro Jambi District

Abstract

Palm oil is a plantation commodity that has high economic value and has the potential to be developed in Jambi Province. One of the districts in Jambi Province whose farmers cultivate oil palm is Muaro Jambi. This research was conducted to analyse independent oil palm farming income after replanting in Sungai Bahar Sub-District, Muaro Jambi District. This study shows that there are still many farmers in the study area who only cultivate oil palm as their main source of income (43.3%). Farmers own 2 lands, i.e., replanted land is the land that has been replanted by farmers or land when they partnered with an oil palm plantation company where replanting was carried out in 2011, 2012, and 2019. Whereas the non-replanting land that was purchased or opened by farmers independently and independently still at the age of productive oil palm plants. The income earned by farmers from the land that has been replanted is IDR. 22,229,912/year and from the land that has not been replanted is IDR. 15,840,852/year.