IS DELAY SELLING SYSTEM GOOD FOR INDONESIA'S AGRIBUSINESS MANAGEMENT?

Abstract

Delay selling practice is the one of strategys to solve price fluctuation for agricultural commodity in harvest time. It’s still become a problem for farmers even the goverment already have many program to solved that isued.One of the efforts to reduce price fluctuation and oversupply of agricultural yields in harvest time is by developing delay selling system model referring to specific local condition. This Study were to describe the implementation of delay selling activity conducted by farmers, and analyze the impact of delay selling implementation on agribusiness development with descriptive and quantitative method. The result shows that delay selling activityin rice farming business gives more revenue compared to non-delay selling activity. Although the cost of delay selling is higher than those who do not implement delay selling activity, the implementation of delay selling activity gives more benefits by comparing the difference of selling price of rice in each kilogram.

Keywords

• Delay selling activity
• Agribusiness
• development
• farmers