Social sustainability of conventional and organic rice farming in north-eastern Thailand

Author(s):  
Shabbir H. Gheewala ◽  
Pornpimon Boonkum ◽  
Chirawan Phantha ◽  
Jittima Prasara A
Author(s):  
Shofia Nurul Hakim ◽  
Rizal Syarief Sjaiful Nazli ◽  
Nurheni Sri Palupi

<p>The high demand for organic rice on the market indicates that the organic rice business has good potential and opportunities to be developed, so as to encourage organic agriculture to become competitive and sustainable. This is an opportunity for farmers, especially farmers who are under CV. Sirtanio Organic Indonesia is expected to provide high value added to its member farmers, so as to boost the economy of farmers towards prosperity. The purpose of this study are: (1) Assessing the simple feasibility of organic rice farming based on Internal Control System (ICS) organic farming in the company is seen from the financial aspect; (2) Describe and analyze the characteristics of organic rice products in supply chains based on ICS in organic farming; and (3) Formulate supply chain strategies for organic rice based ICS agricultural products. The analytical method used is business feasibility analysis which is then identified internal and external factors which are then accumulated using SWOT and formulated several strategies using QSPM. The conclusion of the research results are: (1) The advantage is quite good (&gt;1), the analysis of the R/C ratio calculation for organic rice farming for farmers and companies, namely farmers (2.25) and CV Sirtanio (1.56); (2) Organic certification is an internal force with the opportunity to offer export market share that is quite open, so that it is obtained a ICS -based supply chain development strategy, namely: (a) Development of collaboration with online-shop (score 5,895); (b) Strengthening ICS-based supply chain functions through the implementation of internal audits conducted by the ICS team (score 5,671); and (c) Maintained the organic farming system based on the agreed ICS according to the rules of SNI 6729: 2016 (score 5,541).</p>


MEDIAGRO ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (01) ◽  
Author(s):  
T. Novitaningsih ◽  
S. I. Santoso ◽  
A. Setiadi

The aims of this research are to find out the ammount of profit, profitability, R/C Ratio, and analyzing the ammount of production during 5 years of organic rice farming in the Al-Barokah community, Susukan District, Semarang Regency. This study was conducted on December 2016 – January 2017 in Ketapang Village, Susukan, Semarang. The study method used to collect the data was survey method. The data collected of study was the primary data and the secondary data. The location in this research is selected by several considerations, such as Al-Barokah association is one of farming trade association that uses organic farming system. The populations retrieval used purposive method, then determine the number of samples used the slovin formula. The respondent in this research are 81  farmers  of organic rice. The data analyzed of study was the farming income, R/C Ratio, profitability and trand analysis. Based on the result of income analysis, R/C Ratio and profitability has done that organic rice farming is very feasible and very profitable.Keywords: profitability analysis, farming, organic rice. 


2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 34-42
Author(s):  
Muh. Nasir ◽  
Muhlis Madani ◽  
Anwar Parawangi

This study aims to analyze to describe the implementation of farmer empowerment, capacity, government capacity in empowerment used in organic farmers and to describe knowledge, development, and empowerment of organic farmers. This research method is a qualitative approach by analyzing all data and information sourced from primary and secondary data with interview and observation techniques in the Biangloe Village, Pajukukang District, Bantaeng Regency, the Agriculture Service Food Security Service of Bantaeng Regency. The results showed that the support program for empowerment of groups of farmers / organic farmers had knowledge, skills in organic rice farming, the abilities that had been obtained had a positive impact on farmers, on the aspect of saving on organic fertilizer financing, improved rice production which was supported by the adoption of planting patterns, prices the promising organic rice, the health side is safer. Several policy aspects in the development of organic rice farming are referred to here. The first aspect; The sustainability of either the national standard or the standard operating language for organic procedures does not have legality, meaning that the government is still in the inland process for assistance that will be provided to organic farmers, both guidance and supervision as well as competent institutions that will be involved. The second aspect; Farmer group institutions have not contributed much in the planning process of organic rice farmer activities in villages and are more focused on inorganic agriculture, but on the other hand, the RPJMDes dominance has been included in the document even though the realization is still considered unsatisfactory for all parties. Prime program planning can still be improved, its coordination and scope can be expanded across SKPD networks across actors / agencies, planning program needs to support organic farming in villages and in general Bantaeng Regency.


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