Socioeconomic Analysis of Variety of Agroforestry Practices in Social Forestry in Forest Areas of Dompu District

Abstract

The Government of Indonesia is targeting the acceleration of Social Forestry through Community Forestry, which applies a management pattern with a system of combining various types of plants from both trees and agricultural crops in a land known as Agroforestry (Puspasari et al., 2017). The people of Dompu Regency utilize forest areas as community forests for their social interests without considering the sustainability of forest. This research method uses descriptive research methods. Using two approaches, namely qualitative and quantitative approaches. The results showed that the mixed agroforestry pattern provides a higher net income (IDR 7,082,924/year) than the simple agroforestry pattern (IDR 2,938,820/year), although it requires higher production costs. In addition to income from agroforestry, some farmers also earned income from non-agroforestry sectors, such as farm labor, salaries, and self-employed businesses, with an average household income of Rp12,755,208/year. The highest income of farmer households was obtained from corn farming with an average contribution of 60%. Then followed by non-agroforestry income contributing 27%. If the contribution made by agroforestry 10% of the total income, it is very helpful in meeting needs (Octavianingsih, 2010) in (Sari et al., 2021). While farmer household income from agroforestry practices averaged 12%, this is because farmers have just implemented an agroforestry system on their cultivated land so that the contribution value of agroforestry to income is still relatively low with corn farming.