KELAYAKAN USAHATANI MELON DI DESA KASREMAN, KECAMATAN GENENG, KABUPATEN NGAWI, JAWA TIMUR
Abstract
The purpose of this research is 1). Knowing the factors that influence melon production; 2). Knowing the costs, income and profits of melon farming; 3) knowing the feasibility of melon farming. The method of location selection uses a purposive method and the sampling of respondents is the census method from members of the melon farmer group "Berkah Melon" in Kasreman Village. The data taken is the last season's 1 melon farming data that takes place in December 2018 until January 2019. The results of this study are 1). Production factors that have a significant effect on melon production, namely, seeds, NPK fertilizer, phonska fertilizer, fungicide and labor, production factors that have no significant effect, namely ZA fertilizer, TSP fertilizer and insecticide. ; 2). The average cost incurred for an average land area of 3,323 m² is 18.013.312. The average income of melon farmers in Kasreman Village is Rp. 25,102,449, with an average profit of melon farmers in Kasreman Village of Rp. 20.275.304. ; 3) decent melon farming to be cultivated with R / C ratio of2,12, capital productivity of 154%, land productivity of Rp. 71.510.012/ha/season and labor productivity of Rp. 1.002.476