The Entrepreneurial Characters of Farmers That Influence on Profits of Shallot Farming in Coastal Land

This article contains the results of research with a purpose to determine the farmer’s entrepreneurial character, the profits, and analyze the entrepreneurial character that influencing the profits of shallot farming in coastal lands, Panjatan District, Kulon Progo. The sampling technique used is simple random sampling. This research was conducted using descriptive quantitative analysis. Determination of respondents by simple random sampling as many as 40 farmers among 76 farmers who planted shallots on coastal land during the study. The entrepreneurial character analysis uses an assessment based on the Likert scale, while analyzing the entrepreneurial character that affects the profits of shallot farming using multiple linear regression. The result of research shows that the entrepreneurial character score is 3.17. Internal factors show the score obtained is 3.14. External factors score is 3.54. The shallot farming analysis shows that the total costs are IDR 5,290,619 per 1,000 m2, Revenue IDR 7,312,625 per 1,000 m2. Income IDR 1,529,897 per 1,000 m2, and Profit IDR 2,022,006 per 1,000 m2. Multiple linear regression analysis shows that entrepreneurial character factors that have a significant effect on profit are facing change. The conclusion obtained is that entrepreneurial character analysis has a strong category.