Impact of conversion from rice farms to oil palm plantations on socio-economic aspects of ex-migrants in Indonesia

IF 1.9 4区经济学 Q2 AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS & POLICY

Agricultural Economics-Zemedelska Ekonomika Pub Date : 2019-12-18 DOI:10.17221/349/2018-agricecon

I. Zahri, E. Wildayana, A. Ak, D. Adriani, M. U. Harun

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Abstract

This paper aims to investigate the impact of land conversion from rice farming to oil palm plantations on the socio-economic aspects of ex-migrants in the South Sumatra tidal swamp, Indonesia. Land conversion from rice farming to oil palm plantations is a form of adaptation for ex-migrant farmers and will increase food deficits in Indonesia. Ex-migrant farmers initially cultivated food crops with conventional technology. This pattern has been changing, which have led to the formation of two large groups of farms, namely rice-based farms implementing mechanisation, and oil palm-based plantations. The results showed that changes from rice farming to oil palm plantations did not make the economy of farm households better. Between the two groups of farmers, there is no difference in arable land, the labour allocation for agriculture and the farmers’ income. In addition, there is not much difference between farmers’ participation in on-farm and out-farm activities. The area of arable land owned, the husbands’age, and family size variables are determinants of farmers’ choice to participate in other jobs activities and influence farmers’ income. Thus, changes in crops from rice to oil palm have no impact on cultivation area, labour allocation, income, on-farm and out-farm activities.

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从水稻农场转为油棕种植园对印度尼西亚移徙者社会经济方面的影响

本文旨在调查印度尼西亚南苏门答腊岛潮汐沼泽从水稻种植转为油棕种植对移民社会经济方面的影响。从水稻种植到油棕种植的土地转换是对移民农民的一种适应，将增加印度尼西亚的粮食短缺。移民农民最初用传统技术种植粮食作物。这种模式一直在改变，这导致了两大农场群体的形成，即以水稻为基础的机械化农场和以油棕为基础的种植园。结果表明，从水稻种植到油棕种植的转变并没有使农户的经济状况得到改善。两类农民在耕地面积、农业劳动力分配和农民收入方面没有差异。此外，农民参与农场内活动和农场外活动之间没有太大差异。拥有的耕地面积、丈夫年龄和家庭规模等变量是农民选择参加其他就业活动的决定因素，并影响农民的收入。因此，从水稻到油棕的作物变化对种植面积、劳动力分配、收入、农场内外活动没有影响。

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Agricultural Economics-Zemedelska Ekonomika Agricultural Economics & Policy-

CiteScore

4.30

自引率

4.50%

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审稿时长

30 weeks

期刊介绍： An international peer-reviewed journal published under the auspices of the Czech Academy of Agricultural Sciences and financed by the Ministry of Agriculture of the Czech Republic. Published since 1954 (by 1999 under the title Zemědělská ekonomika).Thematic scope: original scientific papers dealing with agricultural subjects from the sphere of economics, management, informatics, ecology, social economy and sociology. Since 1993 the papers continually treat problems which were published in the journal Sociologie venkova a zemědělství until now. An extensive scope of subjects in fact covers the whole of agribusiness, that means economic relations of suppliers and producers of inputs for agriculture and food industry, problems from the aspects of social economy and rural sociology and finally the economics of the population nutrition. Papers are published in English.