STUDI KOMPARASI PEMASARAN KARET SISTEM LELANG DAN KONVENSIONAL DAN KEBERDAYAAN EKONOMI PETANI KARET DI KECAMATAN KUANTAN TENGAH KABUPATEN KUANTAN SINGINGI

Abstract

The aims of this research were to study: 1) to identify the rubber marketing of
auction system and conventional in Kuantan Tengah sub-district, 2) to identify the
profile of rubber farmers of auction and conventional system in Kuantan Tengah
sub-district; 3) to analyze the rubber marketing of auction system and conventional
in Kuantan Tengah sub- . The sample of farmers in this study amounted to 88
people consisting of 29 samples of auction farmers and 59 samples of conventional
farmers. The results of the study illustrated before the existence of auction market
price is controlled by large traders (toke). Conventional farmers were dominated by
farmers who had land area under 2 hectares. Profile of rubber farmers using auction
marketing system that was 100 percent of men productive age of 65.52 percent, the
average of elementary education, the number of family dependents 0 to 3 with
percentage of 51.72 percent, land ownership of farmers over 2 hectares with a
percentage of 58 , 62 percent and 100 percent own ownership status and long
experience of farmers 6-10 years farming with a percentage of 44.83 percent, of 59
samples of conventional farmers were men, the age of productive farmers amounted
to 43 farmers with a percentage of 72.88 percent, 18 farmers who worked as farm
laborers on the land of others, there was no difference between the average profit of
the trader (toke), there was a difference between the average marketing costs of
farmers, there was a difference between the average marketing margin, there was a
difference between the average efficiency marketing.