Soybean Agribusiness Research Articles

Analysis of Plant Productivity, Farmer Income and Availability of Supporting Infrastructure on Soybean Agribusiness Institutional Performance in East Java

This research investigates the dynamics of soybean agribusiness in East Java through the lens of crop productivity, farmer income, supporting infrastructure, and institutional performance. A sample of 150 participants representing diverse scales of farming and geographic regions was surveyed to gather insights. Structural Equation Modeling with Partial Least Squares (SEM-PLS) was employed to analyze the relationships among variables. The study confirmed positive and significant associations between crop productivity and farmer income, supporting infrastructure and crop productivity, and supporting infrastructure and institutional performance. Discriminant validity was established, and model fit indices indicated the reliability of the proposed structural model. Hypothesis testing further validated the impact of the availability of supporting infrastructure, farmer income, and plant productivity on institutional performance. The findings offer practical insights for policymakers, farmers, and stakeholders to optimize soybean agribusiness in East Java.

Tingkat Kepuasan Petani pada Kinerja Kelembagaan Agribisnis Kedelai di Jawa Tengah

The soybean agribusiness institutions have important roles to support the increased soybean production in Central Java. The purpose of this study was to analyze the levels of performance and importance of farmers in the institutional performance of soybean agribusiness in Central Java. This research uses descriptive analytical method, with the technical implementation of research using survey methods. This research was conducted on September - December 2022 with a sampling technique using a purposive sampling on 110 respondent farmers. Data analysis carried out in this research is Importance and Performance Analysis (IPA). IPA is used to compare the level of importance of soybean farmers with their levels of performances. Before being analyzed using IPA, each attribute was tested for validity and reliability, and from the test results it was found that each attribute was declared valid and reliable. The results of the analysis show that one of the attributes that is included in quadrant I and needs to be a priority for improvement is the need to determine the Harga Pokok Produksi (HPP) for soybeans by the government and the need to increase the subsidized fertilizer program. Attributes that fall into quadrant II and whose performances must be maintained include the existence of collector traders, the existence of a soybean seed assistance program, and the availability of quality soybean seeds. Attributes that are included in quadrant III and are the second priority for repairing and improvement are the need for storage granaries, partnerships with companies, and the easy access to financing services. Meanwhile, the attributes that enter quadrant IV and can be ignored are the availabilities of water, labor, and farming infrastructure.
 
 Keywords: importance and performance analysis, importance farmers, performance farmers, soybeans

Mapping the Available Water Capacity in tropical climate soils for soybean (Glycine max) cultivation in the state of Tocantins-Brazil

Brazilian soybean has undergone considerable economic growth. Its production depends on the demand for some inputs. One of these inputs is the soil water supply, which can be made artificially or obtained by natural rainfall. Knowledge of available water capacity (AWC), which depends on total water availability (TWA), is poorly accessible and difficult to measure in the field. This study aimed to map the AWC of the state of Tocantins, based on pedotransfer functions (PTFs), to evaluate the water availability of the soils of the microregions of that state. We used the Arya and Paris model, aided by a computer program, Qualisolo, made by Embrapa Instrumentação. One hundred fifty-seven tropical soil samples were extracted from the Embrapa Solos portal. Preliminarily, the soil water retention curve (SWRC) was obtained and, subsequently, the TWA and AWC for this oilseed were estimated. Multiple linear regressions show the correlation between TWA and clay (CL), Silt (ST) and total sand (TS) contents. The correlation established was TWA = 3.2993 – 0.0028TS – 0.0034CL. This main conclusion reflects a fruitful AWC for decision-making by the soybean agribusiness and exposes the regional weaknesses for this crop under a rainfed regime in some regions of Tocantins. We could observe that, in terms of water availability, agribusiness is a potential threat to the environment protection area (APA) of the Ilha do Bananal/Cantão, Formoso River microregion.

Analisis Potensi Pengembangan Agribisnis Kedelai di Wilayah Lahan Kering Kabupaten Lombok Tengah Nusa Tenggara Barat

Soybean is a strategic food in Indonesia whose needs continue to increase. However, efforts to increase local soybean production are still difficult due to the large number of imported soybeans entering. This fact has resulted in a decline in farmers' interest in soybean cultivation. In addition, programs to increase local soybean production are still focused on irrigated land, whose use is still competitive with corn and rice. Therefore, this study aims to 1) assess the production and socio-economic potential of soybean agribusiness, 2) determine the added value of soybean-based agroindustries, and 3) estimate the need for soybeans on an agro-industrial scale that makes farmers in the dry land of Central Lombok prosperous. This research was conducted for four months, starting from June to October 2020. The number of research respondents was 30 respondents who were selected by purposive sampling. The results showed that soybean productivity was 5.75 Ku / hectare and income was IDR 2,433,588.88 / hectare. The added value of the farming family for the tofu agroindustry is Rp. 7,989, and the Tempe agroindustry is Rp. 5,131. The minimum amount of soybean needed for the tofu and tempeh agroindustry or the farmer's family to be prosperous is 1,365.38 kg/capita/year. This improvement is expected to be an incentive to foster farmer interest so that soybean production can increase.

Work conditions and their repercussions on the quality of life of rural workers.

To assess the context of work and analyze their repercussions on the quality of life of rural workers in soybean agribusiness. Cross-sectional study, with an intentional sample of rural workers, conducted between the months of October and December 2019, with the application of the instruments World Health Organization Quality Life-bref and Scales of Assessment of Context and Human Cost of Work. The data were analyzed through bivariate and multivariate descriptive statistics. The participants amounted to 299 rural workers. The scores of Work Conditions and Socioprofessional Relations were satisfactory and Organization of Work was critical. The scores of Physical and Cognitive costs were considered critical and of the Affective Cost was satisfactory. The Socioprofessional Relations have negatively impacted the overall quality of life and the Physical and Psychological, the Social Relations and the Environmental Domains, whereas Cognitive Cost positively impacted the Physical and the Environmental Domain and the Affective Cost positively impacted the Social Relations Domain. Although the Work Context and Human Cost indicated adverse conditions, only the Socioprofessional Relations exerted negative influences on the quality of life of rural workers.

Potencial de contaminação ambiental dos herbicidas utilizados nas culturas do milho, soja e cana de açúcar

O crescimento populacional e consequente demanda por alimentos exerce uma forte pressão sobre o meio ambiente principalmente em áreas agrícolas. No Brasil, segundo maior exportador de alimentos do mundo, destaca-se a cana-de-açúcar, milho e soja, importantes commodities do agronegócio. No entanto, para que essa produção seja mantida, práticas agrícolas como o manejo de plantas daninhas, dos agrotóxicos e práticas proteção ambiental dos recursos naturais são essenciais. O método de controle químico das plantas daninhas com herbicidas é o mais utilizado, colocando o Brasil como maior consumidor mundial, em quantidade. A presença dessas moléculas no ambiente podem afetar vários ecossistemas incluindo os recursos hídricos. Objetivou-se nesta revisão discorrer sobre potencial de contaminação com herbicidas utilizados na cultura da soja, milho e cana-de açúcar no Brasil. Os ingredientes ativos mais comercializados nos últimos anos foram o glyphosate, 2,4-D, atrazine e diuron. Estudos de monitoramento de resíduos de agrotóxicos têm sinalizado que esses agroquímicos estão presentes nos alimentos, atmosfera, águas superficiais e subterrâneas. Parte das formulações dos herbicidas comercializados para as culturas avaliadas apresenta classificação ambiental entre as classes II (Muito Perigoso) e III (Perigoso). Relatos de casos envolvendo a contaminação por herbicidas têm sido descritos no Brasil e no mundo. Atrazine é o herbicida com maior número de relatos como contaminante de água. O controle deve ser adotado dentro do manejo integrado para minimizar danos, além da conscientização dos agricultores sobre o uso consciente e sustentável e fiscalização dos órgãos competentes para o monitoramento nos recursos hídricos.

STRATEGI PENGEMBANGAN AGRIBISNIS TANAMAN KEDELAI DI DISTRIK SIDEY KABUPATEN MANOKWARI ( Soybean Agribusiness Development Strategy in Sidey, Manokwari District )

The Agricultural sector plays an important role in the Indonesian economy. Agribusiness is a strategic step to increase the added value of agricultural resources through the use of technology, expand employment and increase community income. This study aims to identify internal factors (strengths and weakness) as well as eksternal factors (opportunities and threats) faced owned by soybean agribusiness in Manokwari Regency. For this reason, it is necessary to formulate a strategy than can be carried out in the development of soybean agribusiness in Manokwari Regency. Govermment strategies and policies must be directed towards improvement which is followed up thtroug the results of SWOT analysis that uses strategies S-O strengths to take advantage of opportunities, strategies of strength to avoid existing threats, strategies that take advantage of opportunities to overcome weakness and strategies to overcome weakness to avoid threats.

Local Soybean Development Strategy In North Sumatra

The rapid import of soybeans at low prices makes the domestic soybean market dominated by imported soybeans. This makes the local soybean farmers more squeezed so that the enthusiasm of farmers to grow soybeans is reduced. The purpose of this study is how the strategy of developing local soybean agribusiness in North Sumatra. The method in this study is to use a SWOT analysis to determine the internal and external factors of soybean agribusiness conditions in North Sumatra. The SWOT analysis is carried out using a SWOT matrix and produces four alternative strategies that are able to clearly illustrate how external opportunities and threats faced by the company and its strengths and weaknesses. The results show that the strategy to increase soybean production in the study area is an aggressive strategy or SO (Strengths - Oppurtunities) strategy, which is to use strength to take advantage of existing opportunities with the following activities: (1). Utilizing Gapoktan support so farmers receive quality seed assistance and add to the experience of farmers in soybean agribusiness (2). Utilizing government support in channeling capital to expand soybean farming land. (3). Utilize average input prices and input availability to increase soybean production

De agrovila a nó logístico do agronegócio na Amazônia: o caso de Miritituba, Itaituba, Pará

A presente pesquisa tem como objetivo analisar as políticas públicas e coorporativas de logística do agronegócio da soja para viabilizar a exportação de commodity agrícola pelos portos do Arco Norte, com ênfase para o distrito de Miritituba, Itaituba, Pará e seus reflexos no lugar, face à implantação de Estações de Transbordo de Cargas (ECT) em Miritituba. Com o avanço do asfaltamento da rodovia Cuiabá - Santarém e da aprovação da lei 12.815\2013 (lei de portos), a partir de 2014 começa a instalação de ETC na localidade transformando o pequeno povoado, localizado a margem direita do rio Tapajós em um importante nó logístico estrada-rio do agronegócio na Amazônia no atual período histórico.

STRATEGI PENINGKATAN PRODUKTIVITAS DAN KUALITAS KEDELAI LOKAL DENGAN PENDEKATAN PRODUKTIVITAS HIJAU

Increasing the competitiveness of soybean is an important thing and priority that must be done in order to fulfil the national food security. The objectives of the research were (1)to map of local soybean problems associated with the concept of green productivity, (2) performance / green productivity index of soybean cultivation, and (3) design model of increasing soybean green productivity. The research was conducted in Banten Province on soybean production center. Data and information were collected through interviews and in-depth discussions on soybean business actors. The methods used were Green Value Mapping system, Green Produtivity Indeks, and Fuzzy Inference System (FIS). The results showed that the green productivity status of soybean agribusiness was in low category that need to be improved through innovation especially on seed supply, post harvest handling, and utilization of waste. Keywords : soybean, competitiveness, green productivity, green value stream mapping, fuzzy inference system

The Development Strategy of Soybean Agribusiness in PT Lentera Panen Mandiri

The aims of this study are to identify both internal and external factors of agribusiness in PT Lentera Panen Mandiri (PT LPM), map the company’s position, and determine its development strategy. Main data used in this study is primary data obtained from stakeholders of PT LPM by direct interview. Strength, Weakness, Opportunity and Threat (SWOT) of soybean agribusiness in PT LPM were identified in this study and followed by determining the company’s position using SWOT diagram. Alternative srategies were derived from the SWOT matrix and prioritized using Quantitative Strategies Planning Matrix (QSPM) analysis. The results of this study identified 5 strengths, 7 weaknesses, 9 opportunities, and 6 threaths with the highest factors consisted as "company's commitment to supervise and foster farmers and suppliers", "is time-consuming sorting process and potency of mixed between rice and soybean", "opportunity to increase the productivity of soybean at farmer level ", and "uncommit suppliers to supply only from areas that have been approved by the company" respectively. Based on the SWOT diagram, soybean agribussiness in PT LPM positioned in Quadrant I, which mean that the company should apply Agressive Strategy or Strength – Opportunity (S-O) strategy. Based on the SWOT Matrix, 5 alternative of S-O strategies were derived. Based on the QSPM analysis, strategy for guarding and coaching farmers through patnership scheme is the first priority with Total Attarctive Score (TAS) is 12.9.

Chinese land grabs in Brazil? Sinophobia and foreign investments in Brazilian soybean agribusiness

ABSTRACTChinese companies were singled out among major investors seeking farmland in Brazil, but my own and other emerging research reveals that China still lags far behind investors from the Global North, and there is evidence that the differences between them are far less significant than was presumed. Why then have Chinese agribusinesses been singled out, even as the size and amount of their investments in Brazil – particularly when compared with those form the US, EU, Argentina, and Japan – are in fact relatively small? Who are the actors in Brazil that have contributed to this apparent sinophobia, and who has challenged it? Who benefits? And how have Chinese investments themselves been affected by this disproportionate negative attention? I argue that challenges to national and food sovereignty arise, ultimately, from the transnational soybean production system regardless of the national character of any particular companies or their cross-border relations.

The geopolitics of Brazilian soybeans

Soybean plays a major role in the development of Brazilian agribusiness, and in turn in Brazilian geopolitical power as well. It is a pillar of Brazil's insertion into a ‘new multi-polar world order’ as basis for much Brazilian land ownership in neighboring countries, for the extension of political influence in Africa, and it is especially important for balancing trade with Brazil's new primary commercial partner, China. Yet the US dollar and North Atlantic transnational companies still control global soybean markets and production technologies. In a context marked by booming but volatile commodity prices, food crises, riots and revolutions in food-importing countries, a global rush for farmland, and severe droughts and climate change, the soybean agribusiness in Brazil takes on new and crucial geopolitical significance. I trace the geopolitical role it has served in consolidating the ‘green revolution’ in Brazil, and raise questions about the intersection between agroindustrial markets and currencies: could agricultural commodities serve geopolitical functions (and thus contestation) similar to those ‘petro-dollars’ have served since the 1970s? These considerations show how the political ecology of soybean shapes and is shaped by inter-regional and global-scale processes, and reveals new directions for research on the emerging geopolitical landscape of our century.

CONSIDERAÇÕES SOBRE A APROPRIAÇÃO DO ESPAÇO MARANHENSE PELO AGRONEGÓCIO DA SOJA: a ideologia do desenvolvimento e a acumulação de terras na microrregião dos Gerais de Balsas

This paper aims to analyze the expansion of soybean agribusiness in the micro-region of Gerais de Balsas and increased poverty. Reflection on the production of space in modern farming of soybeans, the production relations of agribusiness. We seek some notes for the debate about the speech that carries on agribusiness development for the region, from documents of the state, and especially of public investors, such as BNDES. This search points that in Maranhão for one side the IDH, per capita income and the PIB increased, in the other side happened a concentration of the lands and income for the big agribusiness, in detriment of the impoverishment and the expulsion of peasantry

A comparative study of GERIPA ethanol with other fuels

The GERIPA project aimed at generating renewable energy integrated with food production has led to a beneficial option for producing ethanol and electricity. Ethanol has economic, social and environmental potential. Considering just the first one, Brazil consumes 39 billion liters per year-LD/yr of diesel oil, 18% of it being imported. The Federal Government has a recovery programme for the soybean agribusiness aimed at soybean biodiesel (SBD) production in which a 10% addition to diesel has been proposed. This 10% involves producing 10.7 million LSBD/d. Soybean biodiesel production is not self-sustainable and such proposal could require an annual subsidy of up to US$1.33 billion. Soybean plantations would need about 10 to 12 times more land than is necessary for sugarcane plantations to produce the same equivalent thermal energy (ETE). Sixty-seven GERIPA projects (GP) producing 80,000 liters of ethanol per day (GP80) could be set up with the sum of US$1.33 billion; this would substitute current Brazilian biodiesel demand by 4.28%, adding the same value for each new subsidiary. Considering ETE, ethanol-GP cost would be 37% to 50% below that for a liter of SBD on account of its raw material (RM) and region. The diesel cycle's thermal efficiency (ηt) yield is around 50% and that of the Otto cycle engine ηt is around 37%. The cost per km driven (CKD) by substituting SBD for ethanol-GP80 would thus indicate an 18% minimum and 59% maximum cost reduction for vehicle engines.