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Considering its role on household consumption as well as production, in Indonesia chili is one of the most important vegetable commodities but also problematic in term of high risk and volatile price.Previous studies lack of detailed analyses on the factors influencing farmers' decisions to participate in chili farming and to expand their cultivation areas.Understanding farmer behavior is crucial for designing interventions that can effectively address the risks and challenges of chili farming.This study aimed to determine the behavior of farmers in chili farming.The research was conducted in one of the vegetable production centers in the Upper Citarum Watershed, West Java Province.Using the double-hurdle approach, the results show that the positive factors for the probability of participation are farmers' exposure to price volatility, the role of farming in the household economy, and positive attitudes towards vegetable farming as a way to increase income.For farmers who decided to participate, factors conducive to scaling up were self-financing, availability of family labor, and experience in vegetable farming.Results of this research imply that improvement of chili farming performance requires policy for increasing farmer access to market price, promoting contract farming, strenghtening coordination among farmers in utilising market price information for planning planting time and cropping pattern.The findings also contribute to the development of policies and practices that can improve the sustainability and profitability of chili farming.
Sumaryanto et al. (Thu,) studied this question.