Relationship Between Compliance Level of Good Agriculture Practices with Increased Production of Sugar Cane (Saccharum officinarum L)

Abstract

The increase in sugar cane yields is influenced by many factors, one of which is farmer compliance in implementing good agriculture practices (GAP). The implementation of various cultivation methods and technologies cannot be carried out partially and must be integrated into a technology package. This technology package then becomes effective and efficient in producing high sugar yields. We conducted this research to determine to what extent the implementation of GAP by farmers affects production, including % Yield, % Brix, and % Pol sugarcane. We conducted research at the sugar cane production centre in Malang Regency. The stages of this research were carried out by a) a survey of 20 farmers and locations by looking at the compliance of the GAP with a total area of approximately 10 Ha. This sampling is Purpose Random Sampling with a modified Likert scale technique. b) Carrying out Yield Analysis and Correlation with Rank-Spearman Correlation is carried out to see the relationship between the application of GAP to the yield of sugarcane. The results show the compliance of GAP, which are based on the five main indicators of successful sugarcane cultivation, including land cultivation, fertilization, pest and disease control, defoliation, the process of sending the row material to the factory and all of them has a positive correlation to the yield of sugarcane with farmer compliance to implement GAP reaching 70 %. Then farmers' compliance with GAP in cultivation shows a positive correlation in increasing the results of %Yield, % Brix, and % Pol.