Analysis of the Effect of Temperature and Rainfall on Coffee Productivity in Indonesia using the Cobb-Douglas model for Determining Insurance Premiums

Abstract

Coffee is one of Indonesia's foreign exchange earners and plays an important role in the development of the plantation industry. Indonesia is a coffee bean producing country ranked 4th in the world after Brazil, Vietnam, and Colombia. The agricultural sector in Indonesia has risks and uncertainties including a decrease in production yields which results result in a decrease in farmers income. The risk of loss in coffee is caused by temperature and rainfall. Efforts that can be made to reduce losses are through risk transfer through agricultural insurance. The purpose of this study to analyze the effect of temperature and rainfall on coffee productivity in Indonesia and determine the insurance premium. This research uses data on coffee productivity, temperature, and rainfall from 1980-2019. The relationship between coffee productivity as a dependent variable while temperature and rainfall as an independent variable was used the Cobb-Douglas method. The results that will be obtained from this study indicate the temperature and rainfall affect coffee productivity in Indonesia, and obtain insurance issued by the farmers to the insurance companies. The results obtained from the data analysis show that temperature and rainfall have an effect on coffee productivity in Indonesia. The results of productivity predictions are used as the basis for determining the price of insurance premiums issued bye insurance companies.