ENHANCING ECONOMIC CONDITIONS OF FARMERS THROUGH URBAN AGRICULTURE: A CASE STUDY ON FARMER�S PERCEPTION IN KAMPONG MADE, SURABAYA � INDONESIA

• Main Authors: , Dian Festy Anggraine, , Prof. Ir. Bakti Setiawan, M.A., Ph.D.
• Format: Theses and Dissertations NonPeerReviewed
• Published: [Yogyakarta] : Universitas Gadjah Mada 2013
• Subjects: ETD
• Online Access: https://repository.ugm.ac.id/125822/; http://etd.ugm.ac.id/index.php?mod=penelitian_detail&sub=PenelitianDetail&act=view&typ=html&buku_id=66002
• Institution: Universitas Gadjah Mada

Regarding to the development, the wide of agriculture land is decreasing year by year. It is inversely with the increasing demand of food because of the rise of population number. This research addresses the practice of urban agriculture which is focus on its activities in order to provide food especially for city dwellers as well as to increase the value and the price of agriculture products. This research conducted to evaluate the contribution of urban agriculture activity in Surabaya City in increasing economic conditions of farmers and to propose suitable methods in raising up economic value of agriculture products. The outcome of this research is to generate income through agriculture activity by recommend an approach to increase product value that possible to be applied in the near future. The study focuses on Kampong Made in Surabaya City. Main question of this research is �Does urban agriculture activity able to mounting economic conditions of farmers? How?� To deal with the objective, quantitative and qualitative approached are utilized to perform the thesis. Chi-square and crosstab using SPSS software is used to evaluate data from questionnaire combined with interview from different respondents and secondary data are constructed in order to analyze the data. Research finding in the term of natural aspect is farmers have easy access to land. Basically, farmers got their basic skills of farming by self-learning. However, their membership in KTMB gives them opportunity to attend many kinds of training that can rise up their skills. Support from institutions becomes main role in continuity of agriculture activity. Regarding to physical aspect, farmers have an easy access to physical aspect because they use certain equipment that is easy to get, and also KTMB help them provide equipment that might be not affordable for them. Finally, agriculture activity can generate their income and it makes them able to fulfill their needs as well. In order to ease economic issues, farmers have been accomplishing several approaches started from using organic fertilizer to increase the quality of the products, up to filling the market niches and finding different segments of consumers. However, in the future they should be more conscious about the discrepancy between the value of their product and the value of their land. There are several policy recommendations that can be proposed. The first recommendation is farmer can maintain what they have done before. In the near future, food branding can become alternative way and should be implemented more seriously. On the other hand, strengthening farmers� association is needed to help farmers maintain urban agriculture activity since the role of farmers� association is very important.