More Non-farm Job Opportunities and their Impact on the Farm Development Strategy of a Rural Village in West Java, Indonesia

摘要

Regional economic integration would force domestic crops to compete with imported commodities. Nonetheless, increased foreign direct investment would provide more non-farm job opportunities and promote labour migration. While this stimulates structural reform in the farm economy by shifting from traditional crops to more competitive varieties on the international market, more non-farm job opportunities would ensure farmers rely less on agriculture. In fact, reliance on non-farm work will be deepenedin an area with more job opportunities, a larger population, less agricultural land, and the complexity of external extension such as on the island of Java in Indonesia. Rising non-farm income will contribute to increased farm household income and provide labour to labour intensive industries. On the other hand, it could decrease the productivity, profitability and competitiveness of agriculture as a result of delays to technological innovation and farmland consolidation. The major objective of this study is to investigate how the expansion of off-farm job opportunities affects the farm development strategy of individual farm households.