ANALYSIS OF FINANCIAL FEASIBILITY AND SUSTAINABILITY OF INTEGRATED FARMING SYSTEMS OF PADDY AND DAIRY: A CASE STUDY IN HAURNGOMBONG VILLAGE SUMEDANG REGENCY WEST JAVA

• Main Author: Sukainah
• Format: Theses
• Language: Indonesia
• Online Access: https://digilib.itb.ac.id/gdl/view/54302
• Institution: Institut Teknologi Bandung

Sustainable agriculture is a major challenge in today's agricultural world. The decreasing of agricultural land and the high demand for food will affect the agricultural system applied. Conceptually integrated farming system is a solution in supporting the vision of sustainable agriculture in Indonesia, especially in supporting small farmers in their villages. The traditional integrated farming practices carried out by local farmers in Haurngombong Village are interesting to be studied carefully because food security in this pandemic era has become a more serious problem. In general, farmers in Haurngombong Village carry out activities to raise dairy cows in addition to farming. Farmers also use waste from farming activities to make fertilizer and produce biogas to support food and energy security for farmer households. The purpose of this research is to determine the feasibility of integrated farming in Haurngombong Village to support food self-sufficiency, analyze and assess the sustainability of the integrated farming system in Haurngombong Village; and identify key determinants of sustainability for the future development of integrated agricultural enterprises in Haurngombong Village. This research was conducted with a survey involving 30 respondents using purposive sampling. Farmers in Haurngombong Village are dominated by those over 55 years of age, low education (SD and equivalent) and a relatively narrow area of land (under 0.3 hectares). Insufficient irrigation is also a major problem, especially in lowland rice farming, so farmers often use their rice fields to plant crops during the dry season. Haurngombong Village in the 2007-2009 period was assigned as an energy independent village, but this status could not be maintained because only 12.5 percent of farmers used biogas alternative energy. The integrated rice field farming business with dairy cows in Haurngombong Village is declared feasible because it has a Revenue / Cost (R/C) ratio of more than 1, namely 1,85 and 1,48 respectively and it can be said that both businesses have significant benefits if the farmers has at least 1 hectare of land and 6 dairy cows per farming family. In multidimensional terms, the results of the analysis of integrated agricultural enterprises in Haurngombong Village show the less sustainable category with a value of 44.86; However, dimensionally, in the socio-cultural dimension, the category is quite sustainable with a value of 54.27. There are 5 key factors determining the sustainability of integrated agricultural business development in Haurngombong Village, namely (1) water availability, (2) availability of irrigation canals, (3) price stability, (4) government subsidies for inputs, and (5) market accessibility. Several interventions are needed to improve the performance of the above key factors. Interventions can be carried out by local government agencies, universities and NGOs, such as in the form of programs and financial support, training and workshops in the fields of business and management, as well as the introduction of relevant applied technology related to integrated farming systems. The integrated agricultural business model in Haurngombong Village has the potential to accommodate the provision of concentrate to 85 dairy cows (25% of the total population of dairy cows) by saving on livestock feed in the form of concentrate as much as 111,726 kg/year and feeding costs of Rp335,179,392 per year. In addition, this system has the potential to save fertilization costs of Rp155,648,000 or saving 19.61% of the total financing for fertilizers in one year (Rp793,600,000).