Planting System Modeling of Chrysanthemum Seedling Plants Stock for Profit Optimization

Abstract

Inventories of conventional agricultural cultivation products are closely related to available land area. Often the area of available land is not comparable to meet all demands and cause a profit loss. Appropriate planting management is needed to minimize the profit loss. This study aims to optimize the profit from Chrysanthemum seedling cultivation on Cianjur seedling plantation by developing a model of decision-making system through simulating the planting proportion between varieties. The method used in this research is by using hard method operational research (OR) approaches, while the simulation process is done using spread sheet excel with manual input. The results showed that in one planting period required four times planting with the particular planting proportion. The total profit generated from the best scenario simulation is IDR. 385,779,274.19 with 24.63% profit from first planting, 26.26% from second planting, 27.97% from third planting and 21.13% from fourth planting. The results of this study provide a basis for determining the decision of planting patterns compared with existing conditions that have not used the planning model at all.