KEMITRAAN AGRIBISNIS UNTUK MEMBERDAYAKAN EKONOMI RAKYAT

Abstract

Partnership in agribusiness that is typically interpreted as a contractual
farming between the farmers and their partners seems to be a pretending partnership. Therefore, as their partnership only presents an exploitative type of relationships,farmers’ interest in increasing their prosperity would be fitfully and randomly to cope with. After observing precedence of agribusiness partnership in West Sumatra, this paper proposes an ideal scheme of partnership for fully integrated agribusinesssystem. In this scheme, the farmers and their partners have to share costs and benefits implied by the agribusiness system, as the consequences of their togetherness in handling the risks both in the on-farm and in the off-farm. Therefore, the real focus of the government’s intervention and policy is to promote such a kind of partnership.