THE IMPACT EVALUATION STUDY IN STRENGTHENING FOOD DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM

Abstract

The falling price grain in the harvest season and the unavailability of food reserves for facing
drought are two interrelated things that always harm farmers and rural communities. Facing such
uncertainty, the government launched a program to provide protection and empower farmers,
farmer groups, and or farmer group associations (GAPOKTANs). Therefore, this work proposes
to evaluate that program by using the descriptive, SWOT, and financial analysis. The outcomes
of this survey show that farmers’ income has increased significantly and GAPOKTANs have
been developing their function as a blog which buy grain from farmers during the peak harvest
period and distribute rice to stabilize the cost during the scarce period in the mart.