MENINGKATKAN PENDAPATAN PETANI MELALUI DIFERSIVIKASI TANAMAN HORTIKULTURA DI LAHAN SAWAH IRIGASI

Abstract

Farmers in the paddy field farming faces some fundamental problems caused by the narrower tenure due to increased population and land inheritance, creation of breakthrough technologies to increase the productivity of rice farming and farmers' income increasingly difficult for farmers to diversify motives are often more oriented to the income stabilization. West Java is better known as the rice granary, is also a center of vegetables in Indonesia. Vegetable farming has been fused with the local community, especially for upland farmers. The last few years this development not only in vegetable crops in the highlands but try also try in the lowlands in the paddy field. Along with the above conditions, the policy support necessary to achieve the expected results. One obstacle in the application of vegetable farming is the lack of use of the means of production as a result of lack of financial ownership of farm households. The purpose of research is (a) reveals variability of farm crops especially <br />vegetables Onion, Long Beans, cauliflower and cucumbers. (b). And to evaluate the extent to which government policy support for horticultural commodities especially vegetables in West Java. The research was conducted in two districts of Indramayu (Chilli Red, Red Onion and Cauliflower), Falkirk (cucumber and bean length) of West <br />Java Province. , Amounted to a total of 50 respondents drawn farmers. The results showed that farm incomes various vegetables (horticulture) is higher than the income of rice farming, especially in the red pepper (673%), onions (415%), while the rate of return based on a variety of vegetable farming is higher than the benefits of rice farming, especially red pepper (776%), onions (279%) cauliflower (200%) and beans (144%).