Determinant Factors of Gaharu Farmers Income at East Oku South Sumatera Indonesia

Anggi Fatmayati, M Yamin, Elisa Wildayana

Abstract: Gaharu began to be known to the Indonesian people around the year 1200 which is shown by the history of trade in the form of exchange (barter) between the people of South Sumatra and West Kalimantan with traders from mainland China, Kwang Tung. East OKU Regency is one of regencies in South Sumatera Indonesia, which is currently developing gaharu wood farming as a leading commodity. This studies aims to analysed the determinant factors of gaharu farmers income at East OKU Regency, South Sumatera Indonesia. The research methods used is a case study method and the sampling method uses is simple random sampling with a population of 120 and a percentage of 50 to obtain the number of samples of 60 gaharu farmers. Data processing method is multiple linear regression, and the results showed that land of area (X1), farmer 039, s age (X2), education time (X3), duration of cooperation (X4) significantly influenced the income of gaharu farmers at East OKU Regency, South Sumatera Indonesia.

Keywords: Determinant factors, gaharu, farmers income