Kajian Stok Pangan Beras di Provinsi Jawa Timur dan Sulawesi Selatan

Abstract

Rice has become a strategic staple food that the demand is always increasing. Food stock of domestic rice to be important things to watch out since the increasing of world food price also affect both domestic rice price and stocks in the country. The purpose of this study are as follows 1) Review the rice stocks at the level of farmers, marketing agencies and state trading enterprise in two areas of central production and 2) examines the system of marketing chanel of rice in the central region in Indonesia, namely the Provinces of South Sulawesi and East Java. Data collection is done for five months: June to October 2012. The location was selected purposively, since the two regios arethe central production of rice in Indonesia. Primary data were obtained through interviews consists of farmers, merchants, milling, wholesalers, retail dealers and consumers. The amount of grain that is in stock in the farmer level ranged from 14-119 per cent of the harvest. The motif of hoarding does not appear in this study, all the rice marketing chain from farmers to the retail traders doing stock just for the purposes of backup, in addition there are not many actors who do stock. Judging from the current system, the most effective marketing channels are the farmers, the middleman, RMU, wholesale rice, retail and consumers. Nonetheless, the margin among the perpetrators is still unfair. Farmers earn lower margins compared to other actors.