SOYBEAN PRODUCTION AND ECONOMIC OF INDONESIA

• Main Author: Sulistiya
• Format: Article
• Language: Indonesian
• Published: Universitas Janabadra 2014-01-01
• Series: Jurnal Pertanian Agros
• Subjects: soybean; ; imports; farmers
• Online Access: http://e-journal.janabadra.ac.id/index.php/JA/article/view/187/160

Indonesian soybean production almost never moved, even tended to decrease. Indonesia does not have a specific area of land for planting soybeans. Soybean are generally just a byproduct of plant or land filling vacant after farmers grow rice. In addition soybean price fluctuations that affect tofu and tempe entrepreneurs, it turns soybean farmers are often losers. Policy biased to the consumer sector than soybean production, cause national soybean production declining. The decrease occurred primarily because of the narrowing of soybean plantation land owned by farmers, this happens because soy is less interesting than the business side so that the farmers based on rationality, farmers prefer the other commodities, especially rice. Increasing decline in domestic soybean production resulted in the growing dependence on imports which would deplete foreign exchange. Procurement policies of national soybean stocks through imports is easy to do but its adverse implications for the development of domestic agricultural production, especially soybeans, very bad.