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ANALYSIS OF INDEX MARKET CONNECTION AND MARKET PERFORMANCE IN MARKETING OF BEEF CATTLE IN KUPANG DISTRICT, EAST NUSA TENGGARA, INDONESIA

Matheos Filipus Lalus, Solvi Mariana Makandolu and Edwin Jermias Lodowik Lazarus*

ABSTRACT

Intermediary institutions play a very important role in marketing cattle in Kupang District-ENT with various activities they carry out, including: purchasing, transportation, sorting, standardization and grading, and so on. This research was conducted by survey method. The results of this study shows: the IMC between the price of beef cattle at the level of farmers and middlemen was 1.0040; between farmers and inter islands traders 10.048 was 10048; between middlemen traders and inter-island traders 10.714 was 1.0714. This means that in the short term the prices of beef cattle in the three markets level have not been perfectly integrated. Farmer's share has been fair enough, although at various levels the cattle market in this region has not been perfectly integrated. The average farmer's share in the research area was 75.95%. Marketing margin is 62.17%; profit margin was 66.71%. The biggest profit margin received by intermediary traders was 60.70%, inter-island traders was 29.30%. There was disparity in the distribution of marketing margins between inter-island traders and inter-island traders, with 88.57% for inter-island traders and 48.33% for inter-island traders.

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