Contribution of Vegetable Urban Farming to Household Income in the City of Yogyakarta

Abstract

Urban farming adopted technological advancement in agriculture, beautify the environment as well as resilient future farming. Within household level, this paper examine endowed income through vegetable urban farming, its share to total household income and its determinants in Yogyakarta. Purposively sampled 2 most active districts in urban farming practice and then sampled house- hold randomly. Descriptive analysis is used to describe urban farming activity and its characteristics in Yogyakarta. Furthermore, several statistical approaches are used, income measurement, one sample t-test and multiple liner regression. The results shows that urban farming brings positive return to household. It returns in amount of Rp 112.883/year and total generated household income annually is Rp 46.579.988/year. Vegetable urban farming contributes 0,24% out of total house- hold income. It is considered very small contribution due to the production scale is relatively small, 4 polybags of cayenne pepper, 10 polybags of big chili, and 11 polybags of mustard greens in one year average. Farmer’s age, education level, and number of plants give positive effect to vegetable urban farming. Meanwhile, seed prices brings negative one.