Pesantren Technopreneur: Pemberdayaan Ekonomi Komunitas Pesantren melalui Ekonomi Produktif Berbasis E-Commerce di Desa Tenajar Kecamatan Kertasemaya Kabupaten Indramayu

Penyesuian bentuk produk pangan harus dilakukan oleh sektor UMKM dalam rangka untuk merespon keingin konsumen atas berbagai produk yang ada di pasar. Salah satunya adalah konsumen pisang yang menginginkan berbagai olahan baik, olahan buah pisang sendiri maupun olahan bonggol dan pelepahnya. Hampir di banyak daerah pohon pisang dapat tumbuh subur dengan baik tidak terkecuali di Desa Tenajar Kecamatan Kertasemaya Kabupaten Indramayu. Salah satu pesantren yang memiliki usaha budidaya pisang adalah Pondok Pesantren Syubbanul Yaum. Usahatani pisang yang dijalankan oleh komunitas pesantren berjalan hampir lima tahun dengan jumlah anggota sebanyak 20 orang yang terdiri dari pengurus dan orang tua wali santri melalui lembaga ekonomi pesantren. Melalui kegiatan pengabdian ini diharapkan bisa memberi solusi untuk memberdayakan ekonomi komunitas komunitas dampingan. Kegiatan PKM ini laksanakan selama satu tahun mulai dengan urutan kegiatan yaitu; Sosialisasi kegiatan, Pelatihana pengolahan buah, bonggol pupuk organik, Pelatihan manajemen keuangan dan pemasaran berbasis e-commerce, Pendampingan untuk memfasilitasi terbentunya kelembagaan usaha yang professional dan berkelanjutan, Pendampingan kelembagaan untuk menjamin keberlanjutan kegiatan PKM dan evaluasi sebagai upaya untuk perbaikan atas metode dan program yang dilaksanakan. Hasil kegiatan PKM memberi dampak positif bagi komunitas dampingan yaitu meningkatnya kemampuan masyarakat didalam memanfaatkan bonggol pisang sebagai bahan untuk membuat pupuk organik. Selain itu komunitas juga memiliki keahlian didalam membuat konten pemasaran online, yaitu tersedianya group komunitas didalam memasarkan hasil olahan pisang, yaitu kripik pisang dengan konsep paking yang layak pasar. Melalui kompetensi ini secara memberi manfata bagi meningkatnya kemauan masyarakat untuk berwirausaha olahan buah pisang dan berdampak secara ekonomi yaitu meningkatnya kuantitas penjualan.�The SMEs sector must make adjustments to the form of food products in order to respond to consumer desires for various products on the market. One of them is banana consumers who want a variety of good preparations, processed bananas themselves as well as processed bananas and stems. Almost in many areas banana trees can thrive well, including in the Village of Tenajar, Kertasemaya District, Indramayu Regency. Some of the social institutions that work on banana cultivation are farmer groups, farmer cooperatives, and other social institutions such as Islamic boarding schools. One of the pesantren that has a banana cultivation business is the Syubbanul Yaum Islamic Boarding School. The banana farming which is run by the pesantren community has been running for almost five years with a total of 20 members consisting of the board and parents of the santri guardians through the pesantren economic institution. This PKM activity is carried out for one year starting with the sequence of activities, namely; Socialization of activities, Training on fruit processing, weevils of organik fertilizers, Training on e-commerce-based financial management and marketing, Assistance to facilitate the establishment of professional and sustainable business institutions, Institutional assistance for guarantee the sustainability of PKM activities and evaluation as an effort to improve the methods and programs implemented. The results of the PKM activities have had a positive impact on the assisted communities, namely the increase in the community's ability to use banana weevils as material for making organik fertilizers. In addition, the community also has expertise in creating online marketing content, namely the availability of community groups in marketing processed banana products, namely banana chips with a market-worthy gasket concept. Through this competency, it provides benefits for increasing the willingness of the community to entrepreneurship in banana processing and has an economic impact, namely increasing the quantity of sales.

Willingness to Contribute to Bio-Larviciding in the Fight against Malaria: A Contingent Valuation Study among Rice Farmers in Rwanda

There is broad consensus that successful and sustained larval source management (LSM) interventions, including bio-larviciding campaigns, require embeddedness in local community institutions. Ideally, these community structures should also be capable of mobilizing local resources to (co-)finance interventions. To date, farmer cooperatives, especially cooperatives of rice growers whose economic activity facilitates mosquito breeding, have remained under the radar in designing community-based bio-larviciding campaigns. This study explores the potential of rice farmer cooperatives in Bugesera district, Rwanda, to take up the aforementioned roles. To this purpose, we surveyed 320 randomly selected rice farmers who belonged to one of four rice cooperatives in the area and elicited their willingness-to-pay (WTP) for application of Bti, a popular bio-larvicide, in their rice paddies. Results from a (non-incentivized) bidding game procedure, which tested two alternative contribution schemes showed that financial contributions would be significantly different from zero and sufficient to carry a co-financing share of 15–25 per cent. A strong heterogeneity in mean WTP is revealed across cooperatives, in addition to variation among individual farmers, which needs to be anticipated when engaging farmer cooperatives in LSM.

Profile of the Small-Scale Farms Willing to Cooperate—Evidence from Lithuania

Cooperatives cover a large part of the agricultural sectors and have substantial market shares in agri-food supply chains in the EU Western countries. They account for approximately half of agricultural trade in the EU. By contrast, in the EU Western countries, where farmer cooperatives are widespread and successful, agricultural cooperation in Lithuania has developed intermittently in the last century. We still have very limited knowledge of why the country’s agricultural producers (especially smallholder farmers) are reluctant to cooperate in Lithuania. The aim of this study is to assess the level of the willingness to cooperate among smallholder farmers in Lithuania and to draw up the profiles of small-scale farms that participate in and intend to join cooperatives and, conversely, that do not participate in cooperatives and do not intend to do so. To achieve this goal, a representative survey of small-scale farms was conducted. Results of surveys carried out in 2019 in Lithuania on a group of 1002 small-scale farms showed that only 8% of the surveyed farms participate in producer groups or cooperatives, while another 8% intend to participate. Small-scale farms in Lithuania have weak market integration, with no bargaining power on input and output markets. The vast majority of small-scale farms are reluctant to participate in cooperative activities in Lithuania. Therefore, this study aimed to determine the profile of a small farm that tends to cooperate. The main social characteristics of farm managers and economic factors of farms willing to cooperate have been identified.

Assessing the financial condition and accounts receivable risk among US farmer cooperatives

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to examine the financial condition and ability of farmer cooperatives to withstand significant increases in bad debt expense.Design/methodology/approachA unique data set of farmer cooperative financial statements that spans from 1996 to 2019 is used to examine the changes in profitability, solvency, liquidity and accounts receivable risk. Also, a deterministic stress test model is designed to shock bad debt expense and the resulting write-off of accounts receivable for farmer cooperatives. The stress test provides insights to the resiliency of farmer cooperatives.FindingsResults find that farmer cooperatives are in a strong financial position, which has improved over time. The majority of farmer cooperatives are able to absorb a substantial increase in bad debt expense because of their sizable, retained earnings position. However, cooperatives that have significant profitability challenges do experience much larger losses, especially mixed farmer cooperatives (roughly equally amounts of grain and farm supply sales) and large cooperatives with more than $500 million in sales.Practical implicationsThe stress test results suggest farmer cooperative managers and boards of directors could re-examine their credit policies and consider extending additional credit. Also, cooperatives should consider monitoring and identifying an optimal accounts receivable to retained earnings ratio, which is similar to how banks examine their tier 1 capital ratios.Originality/valueThe value of this study is having data that allows for the examination of the financial condition of farmer cooperatives over time. Also, having current data means the accounts receivable stress test results are more relevant and timelier. This is important because these accounts receivable are primarily tied to crop input supplies, and farmer cooperatives are a significant market participant in the crop input supply market.

Cooperative Partnership with Milk Companies Based on Codex Alimentarius in Realizing Food Sovereignty in Indonesia

<p>Government of Indonesia has allocated food sovereignty’s budget through the 2016 state budget (APBN) which places the cooperation of Ministry of Cooperatives and SME’s with Ministry of Agriculture, when developing the farmer cooperatives’ corporatization. Global food sovereignty is contested by: (1) civil society in which one of the actors is cooperatives, (2) the government which is part of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (UN FAO), and (3) the global private sector which is part of the World Trade Organization (WTO).This paper analyzes Karya Nugraha Jaya Multipurpose Cooperative in Kuningan (KSU KNJ)’s partnership which supplies 90% of good quality raw milk from its members to PT Ultra Jaya Milk (54%) and Diamond Milk (36%), two business actors who has implemented the WTO’s and FAO’s Codex Alimentarius for the sake of fulfilling food safety standards for worldwide food trade. These international institutions forced to revoke the word ‘mandatory’ and the article on ‘sanctions’ from Indonesia’s Ministry of Agriculture’s regulation if business actors do not enter into partnerships with farmers &amp; cooperatives. This study shows that KSU KNJ, which is one of 9,703 Indonesian agricultural cooperatives, is an aggregator of the milk produced by its members. A strategy is needed to increase the partnership of dairy cooperatives with private companies. The possible seven strategies are: (1) Wait and see first group; (2) Driving group; (3) Chain integration group, (4) Cooperation specialist group; (5) Free specialist group; (6) Diversification cooperation group; and (7) Free cooperation group.</p><p>Keywords: Food sovereignty, codex alimentarius, dairy, cooperatives, partnership</p><p> </p><p><strong>Abstrak</strong></p><p><strong>KEMITRAAN KOPERASI DENGAN PERUSAHAAN SUSU BERDASARKAN </strong><strong>CODEX ALIMENTARIUS DALAM MEWUJUDKAN KEDAULATAN </strong><strong>PANGAN DI INDONESIA</strong></p><p>Pada tahun 2016 Pemerintah Indonesia telah mengalokasikan anggaran kedaulatan pangan melalui APBN yang memposisikan Kemenkop UKM harus bekerjasama dengan Kementerian Pertanian dalam mengembangkan korporatisasi koperasi petani. Kedaulatan pangan telah menjadi isu global karena diperebutkan oleh tiga aktor: (1) Masyarakat sipil yang mana salah satu aktornya adalah koperasi, (2) Pemerintah yang tergabung pada Organisasi Pangan dan Pertanian PBB (UN FAO), dan (3) Swasta global yang tergabung dalam Organisasi Perdagangan Dunia (WTO). Tulisan ini menelaah dan menganalisis kemitraan pada Koperasi Serba Usaha Karya Nugraha Jaya (KSU KNJ) di Kuningan yang memasok 90% susu segar berkualitas dari para anggotanya ke PT Ultra Jaya Milk (54%) dan Diamond Milk (36%), dua pelaku usaha yang sudah menerapkan Codex Alimentarius versi WTO dan FAO demi memenuhi standar keamanan pangan untuk perdagangan dunia. Institusi internasional ini menjadi salah satu acuan bagi Indonesia dalam membuat Peraturan Menteri Pertanian No 33 tahun 2018 yang mencabut kata ‘wajib’ dan pasal ‘sanksi’ jika pelaku usaha tidak melakukan kemitraan dalam dua aturan sebelumnya. Hasil telaah dan analisis menunjukan KSU KNJ yang merupakan salah satu dari 9.703 koperasi pertanian Indonesia telah berperan sebagai agregator produksi susu anggotanya. Diperlukan strategi guna meningkatkan kemitraan koperasi susu dengan perusahaan swasta. Terdapat tujuh strategi tersebut mencakup: (1) Kelompok menunggu dan lihat-lihat dahulu; (2) Kelompok penggerak; (3) Kelompok pengintegrasi rantai, (4) Kelompok spesialis kerja sama; (5) Kelompok spesialis bebas; (6) Kelompok kerja sama diversifikasi; dan (7) Kelompok kerja sama bebas.</p><p>Kata kunci: Kedaulatan pangan, codex alimentarius, susu, koperasi, kemitraan</p>

Strategi Pembinaan dan Pendampingan Koperasi Peternak Sapi Perah Dalam Mendukung Keberlangsungan Koperasi Dan Ketahanan Ekonomi Anggota (Studi di KUD Sinar Jaya)

The purpose of this study to examine the use of mentoring and coaching strategies in dairy farmer cooperatives as a means of improving cooperative performance. at this time, cooperatives must survive and maintain the success of their organizations at the highest level because of the high expectations of cooperative stakeholders. Taking place in such a fierce competitive environment requires a more effective and efficient attitude through increasing the capability of the cooperative management staff. Coaching and mentoring can be the key to success for cooperative organizations in maintaining the competitiveness and management power of cooperatives. The research findings show that the problems in cooperative management and accounting have not been achieved as their best. Most of the accounting staff do not understand the accounting process and in the end the financial reports are not sufficient to meet the needs of cooperative users. This research focuses on assisting the accounting process and cooperative management as a support activity for cooperative activities, which will be a source of motivation and an effective performance booster not only for cooperatives but also for management and staff.

40 Years of Policy Evolution of Chinese Farmer Cooperative Organization – Quantitative Analysis of Policy Text Based on the No. 1 Central Document

The issue of agricultural and rural farmers is a fundamental issue related to the national economy and people&#39;s livelihood. Solving farmer issues is always the top priority of the central government. At present, the construction of socialism with Chinese characteristics has entered a new era. Farmer cooperative organization have played an important role in agricultural output and farmers&#39; economic income. Through text comprehensive analysis and policy tool analysis, the policies of farmer cooperative organization involved in the No.1 Central Document from 1982 to 1986 and 2004 to 2020 are sorted out, mainly including the evolution of the name of farmer cooperative organization and the policy support for the development of farmer cooperative organization. Chinese future farmer cooperative organization policies should focus on further improving the system construction of farmer cooperative organization and cultivating talents for farmer cooperatives.

Factor Affecting Farmer Perceptions of the Implementation of Corporate Farming (Case Study at Tani Maju Sejahtera Cooperative, Malang District, East Java Province)

This research analyzes the factors that influence farmers' perceptions of the implementation of agricultural corporations in advanced prosperous farmer cooperatives of the Malang district. This study uses binary logistic analysis. The determination of the location is done intentionally considering that the progressive, successful farmer cooperative is a cooperative formed by the government, which has become an experimental agricultural corporation in Purworejo Village, Ngantang District, Malang Regency. A simple random sampling technique selected Ninety-two farmers as respondents in this study. The factors analyzed in this study include the farmer's age, education, number of family dependents, land area, land status, and length of farming. The results showed that the education factor had no significant effect on the implementation of Corporate Farming. In contrast, the characteristics of age, number of family dependents, land area, land status, and length of farming had a significant effect on the opportunities for farmers to join Corporate Farming. Keywords: Farmers, Perceptions, Corporate Farming, Binary Logistic