Abstract

Farmers in Jambi City mostly cultivate vegetables due to the ease of selling their products and the supportive climate as well. This paper aims to see the level of farmer’s income and characteristics of farmers on the application of farming technology. The research was conducted in Paal Merah Subdistrict, Jambi City, involving 25 farmers that were randomly selected as respondents. Through descriptive data analysis, it is known that red chili farming intercropped with celery has the potential to be developed intensively and sustainably. Support from the characteristics of farmers of productive age, level of education and fairly high farming experience will be able to motivate farmers to increase their business intensively while the obstacles faced are the limited use of seeds and labor, so that a superior variety and additional workers are needed from outside the family. The results also show that without taking into account to the family labor costs, this business is profitable with a total profit of Rp. 20,553,500.

Highlights

  • Horticulture commodities are classified as high-value commodities and become a mainstay source of economic growth of agricultural areas

  • Celery plants are less rainy because it's rainfall optimum ranges of 60-100 mm/month celery plants can be divided into stalk celery, tubers celery and celery leaves [3,4]

  • The research was conducted in October 2018 at Mekar Sari farmers group of Paal Merah Village, Paal Merah Sub District, Jambi City, Jambi Province

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Introduction

Horticulture commodities are classified as high-value commodities and become a mainstay source of economic growth of agricultural areas. Celery (Apium graveolens L.) is one of the many vegetable commodities used for food flavoring and decorating dishes. Celery seeds are used as seasonings and flavoring. The city of Jambi Celery plant is one of the belles, high prices and the number of requests for vegetable celery encourages farmers to cultivate Traditional so the results obtained are still not optimal [5]. It is difficult to determine the area of planting and production both locally and nationally [6]

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