Open AccessFaktor-Faktor Yang Mempengaruhi Produksi Kakao Rakyat di Kabupaten Tanah Datar (Studi Kasus di Nagari Balimbing Kecamatan Rambatan, Kabupaten Tanah Datar)
Author(s) -
Sherly Ananda,
Rahmat Syahni,
Rusda khairati
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
journal of socio economics on tropical agriculture (jurnal sosial ekonomi pertanian tropis) (joseta)
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2686-0953
DOI - 10.25077/joseta.v1i1.13
Subject(s) - production (economics) , agricultural science , manure , productivity , fertilizer , mathematics , biology , economics , agronomy , economic growth , microeconomics
Nagari Balimbing is one of the cocoa model nagari located in Rambatan Sub-district, Tanah Datar District. Recently, the level of cocoa productivity in Nagari Balimbing is still low, only between 0.9 to 1 ton/ha, still far from its potential production 2.5 ton/ha. The objectives of this study are to describe the cultivation of cocoa and factors that influence cocoa production in Nagari Balimbing. The data was collected from 40 farmers which were selected using stratified random sampling from the cocoa farmers in Nagari Balimbing. The data was analyzed by multiple regression analysis using Cobb Douglass production function. Variables used in this study were cocoa production as dependent variable and land area, labor, manure and phonska fertilizer as independent variables. The results showed that the chocolate production in Nagari Balimbing is influenced jointly by land area and labor with determination coefficient 98.2%. While manure and phonska do not affect the cocoa production significantly