Trikonomika: Jurnal Ekonomi
Vol 19 No 2 (2020): December Edition

ENTREPRENEURSHIP FOR DEVELOPING SMALL AND MEDIUM-SCALE FARMERS IN AGRICULTURAL CLUSTER

Silfia Silfia (Pascasarjana Fakultas Pertanian Universitas Andalas)
Helmi Helmi (Universitas Andalas)
Melinda Noer (Universitas Andalas)
Henmaidi Henmaidi (Universitas Andalas)



Article Info

Publish Date
14 Dec 2020

Abstract

The entrepreneurship possesses the energy to generate innovation and improvement of agricultural clusters. However, it somehow has yet been successful to reach marginalized groups including Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in agricultural clusters. The research questions to be addressed are thus: (1) how public policy at both national and regional levels contribute to entrepreneurship capacity-building in developing agricultural cluster in order to achieve SMEs empowerment. (2) Empiric actuality of entrepreneurship in agricultural cluster development. The research is a qualitative-descriptive research, case study on agricultural cluster at Subdistrict Lembah Gumanti of Solok Regency in the province of West Sumatra. Research result indicates that entrepreneurship policy has indeed yet at its best in the development of SME-based agricultural clusters due to the fact that entrepreneurial policy in agricultural clusters is still dominated by personal/private and corporation-based entrepreneurship.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

trikonomika

Publisher

Subject

Economics, Econometrics & Finance

Description

FOCUS AND SCOPE Trikonomika invites academics and researchers who do original research in the fields of economics, management and accounting, including but not limited to: Development Economics Monetary Economics, Finance and Banking International Economics Public Economics Economic development ...