Maize is one of the food commodities that have a very important role both in food security efforts and in other sectors. Maize is used by various groups either for seeds, feed of independent breeders, feed mill raw materials, direct consumption of household, and also for raw materials of food industry. Tuban Regency is the district of maize which is also the biggest contribution to maize production in East Java. Tuban Regency is in the first place by contributing 8.07% to total maize production in East Java Provinsis. The objectives of the research are 1. To know the extent to which factors of production of seeds, chemical fertilizers, organic fertilizers, herbicides, and labor in influencing the production of maize. 2. To know the technical efficiency level of maize farming in Maindu Village. 3. To know the social factor of age, education level (dummy), land area (dummy), and the number of family (dummy) that influence technical efficiency of maize farming in research area. The result of the first objective is known that the factors that influence the existing maize farming in the research area are seed, chemical fertilizer and labor. The second objective result is the level of technical efficiency in the research area obtained the average value is 0.77 or 77%. The third objective result is the social factor that influence technical efficiency of maize farming that exist in research area are education level, and also land area.
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