Pustaka Ilmiah Universitas Padjadjaran

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Mangosteen Farming Intensification: Development Evidence From West Java Indonesia

The demand for Indonesian mangosteen has been greatly increasing in the past ten years, both in domestics and also export market. This paper contributes as an empirical study to literature that examine farmer’s behavior to intensify their farming practice through the use of chemical inputs. Primary data were collected in 2016 from direct interview with 69 farmers in West Java, Indonesia. The sample was determined using multistage cluster random sampling. The paper uses Zellner’s Seemingly Unrelated Regression and the key findings are: (1) Contrary to the conventional wisdom, it is found that 94.2% of the farmers use organic fertilizer and 36.2% use chemical fertilizer for their trees to increase productivity, yet only 8.7% who use pesticides. (2) Farmers decision on the use of chemical inputs is positively correlated to their labor use and the tree productivity. (3) The labor availability in the family and physical assets ownership are positively significant affecting the use of chemical inputs.