The Overview of Green Tobacco Sickness Among Tobacco Farmers in Jember District, Indonesia

Sujoso, Anita Dewi Prahastuti; Martiana, Tri; Martini, Santi

doi:10.20473/jbe.v8i22020.181-189

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“…The nature of tobacco production is also changing with the increasing use of often precarious contractual relationships between farmers and tobacco companies [ 7 , 8 ]. Tobacco farming also remains one of the most labor-intensive crops, often driving cash-poor farmers to employ their own and other children [ 9 ], and causes green tobacco sickness, a form of acute nicotine poisoning, among many farmers [ 10 ]. Given the challenges of tobacco growing, policy makers, advocates, and farmers have sought alternatives to tobacco production.…”

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In-and-Out of Tobacco Farming: Shifting Behavior of Tobacco Farmers in Indonesia

Sahadewo

Drope

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Understanding the variables that affect farmers’ decisions as to whether to grow tobacco and/or other crops provides important insights into their economic lives and can help to inform the development and implementation of policies that shape both tobacco production and tobacco control, such as increasing tobacco excise taxes. This study employs complementary quantitative and qualitative methodologies to identify variables that affect tobacco farmers’ economic decision making in Indonesia, a major tobacco producer. The research focuses on the variables that affect tobacco farmers’ decisions to continue tobacco farming or shift to non-tobacco farming. It finds that tobacco farmers’ decision making is complex but also predictable. The results of the quantitative analysis suggest that farming profits and positive rainfall shocks are two of the key variables that affect the decision to cultivate tobacco. The qualitative results confirm these findings and further illuminate that access to credit, education (agricultural and otherwise) and information play substantial roles in farmers’ economic decision making. Most of these variables are affected by the unequal relationship between the tobacco firms that buy tobacco and the farmers, wherein the farmers are consistently at a disadvantage in terms of negotiating key parameters such as prices and evaluation of leaf quality.

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