Analysis of Dairy Farmers Cooperative Partnership and Participation toward Cooperative Performance to Increase Farmer's Income

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to analyze the direct and indirect effect of cooperative partnerships, farmer participation and cooperative performance on farmer’s income. This research method was carried out by distributing questionnaires to 164 farmers as research respondents in Kemiri village who were active members of the Agroniaga Cooperative Jabung. The research variables were X1 (cooperative partnership), X2 (farmers participation), Y1 (cooperative performance), Y2 (farmer's income). The data obtained were analyzed by path analysis using SPSS. The results show that 1) cooperative partnerships have a significant effect directly on the cooperative performance at 0.533, 2) farmer participation has a significant effect directly on the cooperative performance at 0.362, 3) the cooperative partnership has a significant effect directly on the income of farmers at 0.341, 4) farmer participation has a significant effect directly on the income of farmers at 0.426, 5) cooperative performance has a significant effect directly on the income of farmers at 0.180, 6) cooperative partnership has no significant effect indirectly on the income of farmers through the cooperative performance at 0.096, 7) farmer participation has no significant effect indirectly on farmer income through cooperative performance at 0.18. This study concludes that 1) cooperative partnerships and farmer participation have significant effect directly on the cooperative performance, 2) cooperative partnerships, farmer participation, and cooperative performance have a significant effect directly on farmers' incomes, 3) cooperative partnerships and farmer participation have no significant effect indirectly on farmer income through cooperative performance.

Keywords

• cooperative partnerships
• farmer participation
• cooperative performance