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185 Sjarkowi and Sufri, 2004; Depnakertran RI, 2005; Sjarkowi, 2010; Centre Institute of Statistics South
Sumatra Province, 2012.
3. Results and Discussion
The five management functions planning, organizing, directing, coordinating and controlling are automatically applied to humans in any activity, eventhough not priory realized because it had not compiled
in the past Alvarez and Arias, 2003. Human activity is a living environment. When people talk about environment it means such
environment Sjarkowi, 2004 which consists of 1 social environment organization, science and technology in the imanfaith and taqwa, regulatory, and economic, 2 natural environment taking advantage
of natural resources : the sun, water, air, soil, flora and fauna and, 3 man-made environment taking advantage of constructed resources : the production by the workforce etc.. So the social environment of
agribusiness works with 5 management functions that simultaneously with the natural and man-made environment, and resulting the products in the form tools, seedsseedlings, fertilizers, pesticides, herbicides,
vehicles, garages, and warehouses.
3.1. Income and Hedonistic Life Analysis
The age rubber trees in the garden were reaching 12 years old, and from rubber plantations of 1.5 hectares it realized rubber slabs of 6,520 kgs per year, at the price of Rp10,100,- per kg, Then the revenue
was Rp 65,852,000,- per year, or equal to Rp 5,487,660,- per month. The net income was Rp 4,650,000 per month. In the case of paddy, then on 1.5 hectares planted twice a year, the production were 16.2 tons of
harvest dry grain equivalent of 8.9 tons of millled-rice. At the rice price of Rp 8,120 , - per kg , then the revenue would be Rp 72.27 million per year, and at the production cost of Rp 14.12 million, then the net
income was Rp 58.15 million per year or Rp 4.85 million per month.
Chili plants of 0.5 hectares produced fresh chilies as many as 3.39 tons per year,with the average price of fresh chilies Rp 18,000 per kg, then the revenue equals to Rp62,920,611 or Rp18,511,506.62 per tonne of
3.0 tonnes of fresh chilies or Rp16,338,487.75 per year, or Rp1,361,540.65 per month. Chili production in the second season were 2 tons of fresh fruits and then they can be processed into several bottles of chili
sauce with a profit of Rp 45.18 milliaon per year. Meanwhile, production of catfish gives revenue of Rp3.03 million per year.
Table 1. Production and Income from Several Agribusiness Units Amount of production
Income Rp millionYear
Income Rp millionMonth
6,5 Tons of fresh rubber 1.5 hectares, age 12 years
65.85 5.48
3,0 Tons of fresh chili 0.5 hectares. First 6 months of planting
62.92 5.24
2,0 Tons of fresh chili 0.5 hectares= tons of chili sauce. Second 6 months
of planting. 45.18
3.77 Catfish 0.2 hectares
3.03 0.25
Total 176.98
14.75
The Figures in Table 1 showed that the total income of the farm communities can reach on average Rp 14.75 million per month per family. Such values could be accrued because farmers obtained financial aid
from the Institute of Agriculture Fisheries and Forestry Extension AFFE for cost of production, and they had land area of 2.0 hectares Sufri, Antoni and Tawaqal, 2013. If the farmers do not own or have access to
land, of course they wll not be able to diversify their farming system Pakpahan, 2004. Should the rich
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186 farmers in the village sell their land to farmers who do not own land, how paid per month of production
plants that grow in the land. Therefore for rich farmers who do want to divide their wide land, the Almighty God may gives them punishment in the form of bad climate change and food insecurity. So far, many
companies have not provided good and effective Corporate Social Responsibility which actually can economically empowered village communities, especially the farmers Gray et al , 2004.
Table 2. An example of average income of chili farm implementers in fulfilling the Standard of Living
Needs in Talang Buluh Village No.
Description Rp millionmonthfamily
1 Income
14,747 2
Standard of Living Needs per family 4 persons. Price of goods in village
5,411 Table 2 shows that with the Rp 5.411 million values of Standard of Living Needs for each family with 4
persons per month in the village, the farmers income from chili planting of Rp14.747 million per family per month were able to cover the hedonistic familiy life.
Components required for a decent family life include 1 food and beverages, 2 clothing, 3 residential, 4 education, 5 health, 6 transportation, 7 recreation, and 8 savings Ministry of
Manpower and Transmigration, 2005. Indonesian standard of living needs for education only considers components to the extent of the cost for buying newspapers, radios, books, ball pointpencil only. For health
component, the expenditure includes only for buying toothbrush, toothpaste, soap, shampoo, razors, deodorant, anti-mosquito drugs, cut and comb hair with medium quality. Therefore with the revenue of
Rp14.489 million per month, the farmers family has started to enter the prosperous and hedonistic society. In this lifestyle, education components can be added to include color television sets and books, and children
in the family can continue their education up to high school. The additional items for health component are, when needed, family members can go to a hospital or to a specialist to get medical treatment, and so on.
4. Conclusions and Recommendations
