The Welfare of Fish Farming Communities in Tanah Datar Regency seen from the Perspective of Economics and Islamic Economics

Abstract

This research is based on the majority of people in Tanah Datar Regency who work as farmers, one of which is fish cultivation. Based on this, researchers want to know the welfare of the fish farming community in Tanah Datar Regency. This research aims to analyse the welfare of the fish pond cultivator community from an economic and Islamic economic perspective in Tanah Datar Regency. The research approach used is descriptive qualitative. The primary data source in this research is the fish farming community, obtained from interviews. Meanwhile, secondary data sources are documents, data from the BPS website and other supports. The data validity checking technique used in this writing is the source triangulation technique. The results of the research show that the fish pond cultivation business in Tanah Datar Regency is very beneficial and can improve the welfare of the community as seen from eight indicators from the Central Statistics Agency including indicators of family income, family expenditure or consumption, condition or conditions of residence, residential facilities, health of members. family, ease of obtaining health services, ease of enrolling children in education and ease of obtaining transportation facilities. So, researchers understand that fish pond cultivators in Tanah Datar district are prosperous. Meanwhile, regarding the aspects of maintaining religion, soul, reason, lineage and property, these five aspects have also been fulfilled and of course it can be concluded that fish pond cultivators are prosperous from an economic and Islamic economics perspective.