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Tujuan penelitian ini terdiri dari: 1) Menghitung proporsi distribusi kuantitatif beras yang dihasilkan petani setiap musim dalam setahun, 2) Mengidentifikasi komponen biaya persediaan serta menghitung biaya persediaan di tingkat petani yang dikeluarkan setiap musim dalam satu tahun. tahun. 3) Menganalisis pengaruh penawaran gabah di tingkat petani terhadap pendapatan usahatani padi. Lokasi penelitian ini dipilih secara purposive dengan mempertimbangkan petani memiliki persediaan produksi padi. Penelitian ini menggunakan metode survei. Sampel penelitian ini berjumlah 38 responden dari 283 petani sebagai populasi yang diambil secara simple random sampling. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa proporsi distribusi produksi beras yang dilakukan oleh petani di Kecamatan Sumber Harta Kecamatan Sumber Harta Kabupaten Musi Rawas adalah proporsi penjualan pertama 42,98%, proporsi stok jual 19,70%, proporsi gaji. panen 16,96%, proporsi upah giling 6,35%, dan proporsi benih 1,52%. Dengan demikian diketahui bahwa hasil padi setiap musim tanam memenuhi kebutuhan konsumsi beras petani. Rata-rata jumlah persediaan gabah di tingkat petani per tahun di Sumber Harta adalah 1.306,99 kg dengan rata-rata biaya persediaan yang dikeluarkan per tahun sebesar Rp88.972,88. Hasil analisis menunjukkan besarnya biaya persediaan per kg dengan harga panen lebih rendah dari harga jual beras terakhir. Berdasarkan hasil analisis menunjukkan bahwa petani yang melakukan penyimpanan gabah terlebih dahulu memperoleh keuntungan yang lebih besar dibandingkan dengan menjual seluruh pada saat panen raya dengan selisih sebesar Rp2.083.246,22. Diketahui juga suplai gabah di tingkat petani mempengaruhi pendapatan usahatani padi di Kecamatan Sumber Harta.

Hamzah et al, 2018. Empirical Study on the Pattern of Funding Sources for Rice Farming in South Sumatra. JLSO 7(2): The objective of the study was to identify the source and size of the financing portion of the rice farming from the loan and the terms and the interest rate charged. The interviews were conducted on 75 samples of rice farmers whose farming costs were partly derived from loans at three different land ecosystems in South Sumatra Province. The three types of ecosystems viz., tidal swamp land, technical irrigation, and swamp land were used in the study.  The results showed that there were seven financing sources that farmers used for fulfill their production cost if they not enough capital. Middlemen was biggest source with a portion of 45.28% and their own costs of 43.52, the rest is relatively small comes from money lenders, families, rice milling units, cooperative and friends. The interest rate charged varies from 3% to 50% per planting season. The lowest interest rate on lending money was to cooperatives and middlemen. However, if farmers borrow from middlemen, they must sell their rice to them. The highest interest rate from money lenders is 50%. All loans were being paid at after harvested time. Only borrow to families and friends were not charged interest and other terms. Farmers were forced to use non-formal lending institutions because banks located far away and they were afraid to come to the bank. It is suggested to reduce the dependence of rice farmers on non-formal lending institutions through developing a more effective agricultural cooperative.

The purpose of this research are (1) to determine economic appearance and (2) to estimate the profit function of the application of drip irrigation technology for chili farming in tidal lands. This research used survey method at Budi Mulya Village Air Kumbang Sub-district Banyuasin Regency. Collecting data was held on March and April of 2018. Sampling method was proportionate stratified random. Watering and fertilization of chili farming with utilizing drip irrigation technology was done by using water pump machine. Drip irrigation affected positive impact for increasing of chili farming profit. Drip irrigation technology in chili farming is more efficient than chili farming without drip irrigation technology. Economic of scales of drip irrigation technology in chili farming is 2.547, that means in increasing returns to scale condition. Farmers need government policy in applying this technology like a subsidy or loan from government.

Product competitiveness that must be high in the MEA era does not only apply to industrial products, but also to fruit, including duku. The objectives of this study are (1)to explore consumer behavior in the duku fruit purchase decision process in the MEA era and (2)analyze consumer preferences for the fruit attributes so that it can be known what the ideal duku design is according to consumers. To explore consumer behavior used descriptive analysis, while for analyzing consumer preferences towards attributes using conjoined analysis. From the results of the study, consumer behavior through five stages, namely the introduction of needs, information search, alternative evaluation, purchase and post-purchase. From the results of the analysis, the thing that is considered most important in choosing the fruit attributes of duku is taste, seed size, price, fruit size, hardness of flesh, color of flesh, spots on the skin and skin color. Based on the results of consumer preference analysis, it can be concluded that consumers prefer duku which has the characteristics of sweetness, a small size of seeds, the price is less than IDR 8,000, the size of a large, flesh soft, clear color of flesh, spots are small and yellow skin color.