Institutional Transformation Aimed To Support the Farmers Empowerment Strategy in Lumajang Regency

Abstract

This study aims to determine the conditions of farming and institutional in supporting the empowerment of coffee farmers and to formulate strategies for the empowerment of coffee farmers in the Pasrujambe Village, Pasrujambe Subdistrict, Lumajang through institutional reinforcement. This study uses a qualitative approach as the type of descriptive study by using observations and interviews to assess the institutional development of community empowerment efforts. The results show that the conditions of farming community of coffee farmers have three limitations: the ability to enhance the quality and production; the lack of venture capital and the low skill. These three limitations affect the condition of existing institutional farmers' groups and eventually impact on low institutional performance. In order to overcome the limitations, Institutional development strategy is drafted in the empowerment of farmers, expected to be a reference to increasing the ability of independent community of coffee farmers, namely: human resource development strategy in the group of farmers, development of production quality, and reinforcement of capital sources.