Analisis Keberlanjutan Usaha Tani Kelapa Kelapa Sawit Di Lahan Gambut: Studi Kasus Di Kampar, Riau

Abstract

Sustainability Analysis of Oil Palm Farming Business in Several Management and Types of Business Land in Kampar, Riau. Oil palm is one of the mainstay of export commodities and farmers' income, including cultivated on peat land. The use of peat land for agriculture is feared to threaten the sustainability of farming, mainly due to a decrease in environmental quality. Sustainability analysis of oil palm had objectives to assess the sustainability index of oil palm farming system from some of the plasma management of oil palm farmers and to to determine sensitive factors or leverage points as suggestions to improve the sustainability of oil palm farming system especially on peatlands. Through multidimensional scalling (MDS) analysis based on five dimensions such as economic, ecological, social, technological, and legal and institutional. MDS analysis was carried out on six management models of oil palm farming. The results of the analysis showed that the plasma management of oil palm farmers assisted by private companies (PT. Agro Lestari) on peatlands was the highest level of sustainability, which index sustainability was 60.2 or in a fairly sustainable category. Sensitive factors that can used as a determinant point of the sustainability of farming system, including market access , cultivated land area of farmers, and reasonable prices (economic dimension); maturity of peat land, and the existence of cover crops as ground cover plants (ecological dimension); negative oil palm issues, the role of farmer groups and availability of labor at the local level (social dimension); availability of road facilities (technology dimension); companion effectiveness, ease of licensing, and integration and contribution of existing institutions in the regions related to oil palm farming system (legal and institutional dimensions). Those sensitive factors were leverage points that need to be considered and encouraged in their implementation so that the sustainability of oil palm farming system continues to increase.

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