Risks and Factors Influencing Red Chili Farming Production in Kapanewon Galur, Kulon Progo

¹ Department of Agribusiness, Faculty of Agriculture, Muhammadiyah University of Yogyakarta, Indonesia
² Agriculture Sciences and Biotechnology Department, Faculty of Bioresources and Food Industry, Universiti Sultan Zainal Abidin, Malaysia
³ Management Study Program, Faculty of Economy and Social Sciences, Trilogi University, Jakarta, Indonesia

^* Corresponding author: francy@umy.ac.id

Abstract

Red chili is one of the horticultural products that has quite good adaptability, so it can be cultivated in rice fields and coastal sand. Although red chili can grow on various types of soil, soil drainage and aeration must be good enough, and water is available during chili cultivation, so that chili plant growth can be optimal. This red chili research was conducted with the aim of finding out the factors that influence production and production risks faced by farmers when cultivating red chili plants in rice fields and coastal sand with manual and shower irrigation systems. The number of respondents was 110 farmers who were taken through a census of red chili farmers in Kapanewon Galur. Data were analyzed using the Cobb-Douglas production function for factors that influence production and Just and Pope were used for risk analysis. The results showed that the factors that influence the production of red chili farming are land area, labor, and land type. Meanwhile, the risks faced by farmers in this red chili farming are the use of seeds and land area and land type.