The family welfare of horticulture farmers: Case in Pegalengan District, Bandung Regency, West Java

Abstract

Bandung Regency is a sizeable horticultural supplier for West Java and DKI Jakarta, Indonesia. Horticultural farming faces the constraints of expensive input prices and price fluctuations. This can reduce the welfare of farmers. This study aims to determine the welfare level of horticulture farmers families in Pengalengan Sub-District, Bandung Regency, from June-September 2019. The research method is a survey. Respondents were taken 10 % of the population, i.e., as many as 92 farmers families. The welfare level is measured based on eleven BPS indicators, namely income, expenses, living conditions, housing facilities, household member health, the ease of obtaining health services, the ease in education services, and obtaining transportation facilities, religious life, taste safe, and exercise ease. The poor criteria according to World Bank standard is family expenses of less than 1.9 USD per capita per day. The results show that average income was IDR 9,400,000 per capita per year. The average expenses were IDR 7,283,743 per capita per year. All of the respondents are categorized as non-poor and in the high welfare category.