标题：VARIOUS PROBLEMS OF FARMERS AND FACTORS INFLUENCING THEIR DECISIONS TO CONVERT RUBBER PLANTS INTO OIL PALM IN MAUR BARU VILLAGE OF RUPIT DISTRICT, MURATARA REGENCY, INDONESIA
期刊名称：Russian Journal of Agricultural and Socio-Economic Sciences
印刷版ISSN：2226-1184
电子版ISSN：2226-1184
出版年度：2022
卷号：127
期号：7
页码：92-97
语种：English
出版社：Russian Journal of Agricultural and Socio-Economic Sciences
摘要：The objectives of this study are to identify the factors that influence the decision of rubber farmers to convert rubber plants to oil palm which consists of internal factors including plant age (years), land area (ha), number of dependents (org), and external factors include the distance from home to land (km), marketing channels, selling price (Rp/kg); The method used in this study was the survey method. The sampling method used in this randomized uneven study with a sample of 21 farmers who did not convert plants (rubber farmers) and 21 farmers who converted (oil palm farmers). The results of this research used the Binary logistic data processing method and showed that the factors that significantly affected farmers' decisions in converting rubber crops to oil palm were plant age, land area, number of dependents, and gap distance, while those that did not significantly affect the marketing channel. These results indicate that internal factors are more significantly influential than external factors in the decision-making of farmers to convert rubber plants to oil palms. The results of the t-test analysis indicate that tcount 27,581> ttable 2,021, which means rejecting H0 or there is a significant difference in income, between the income of farmers who convert crops (oil palm farmers) is greater than farmers who do not convert crops (rubber farmer) with the difference in an average income of Rp 8,925,519/ha/year.
