ABSTRACT
This chapter shows how much the sugar cane farmers' incomes are per hectare, how willing sugar cane farmers are to become raw material suppliers to the sugar industry, and how sensitive the sugar cane farmers' incomes are to the changes in productivity and the plantation white sugar price. It describes a mixed qualitative and quantitative approach and provides the sugar cane farmers in Cirebon, which is in the area of Sugar Mill Sindanglaut, and Sugar Mill Tersana. The development of the Indonesian sugar industry had its ebbs and flows in the 1920s. Sugar production is difficult to increase because of the limited availability of land that can be rented by sugar mills for planting sugar cane. Sugar production is estimated as a function of the business administration policy, acreage, sugar cane plantation productivity, yield, and the number of sugar mills. Farmers and the sugar industry are a unity existing in the system of sugar production.
