Analisis Efisiensi Produksi Dan Pendapatan Usahatani Padi Sawah Di Kecamatan Balige Kabupaten Toba Samosir

Abstract

The study aims to identify the factors that affect lowland rice production, analyze the efficiency of using the production factors of the farming, and calculate the farmers’ income of the farming in Balige Sub-district Toba Samosir Regency. The research was conducted in Hutagaol Peatalun Village and Hinalang Bagasan Village with 64 respondents. Farmer respondents were chosen using a simple random sampling method. The collected data were analyzed by Cobb-Douglas production function, economic analysis by calculating the returm to scale value, and farmer income analysis. The results showed that the factors that affected the production of lowland rice was land size, seeds, NPK fertilizer, pesticide, and labour. The use of production factors were not efficient because it was classified to increasing return to scale. The income earned by the farmers over the total cost was IDR24,636,334.99 with R/C value of 3.89 and it was profitable. Key words: efficiency, income, production, lowland rice.

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“…Based on the beta value of the Labor Variable we come to conlude that the farmers in the study site have a chance to increase their rice farming production by labor intensification, both family and hired labors. This finding is in line with the findings of Sukerta et al (2018); Musaba & Mukwalikuli (2019); Khoerunisa et al (2021); Marwin et al (2021) which mentioned that the labor variable had a positive influence on rice production. Therefore, efficient labor management can help farmers in the study area to increase their rice farming production.…”

“…However, this result suggests that an increase of the use of NPK fertilizer by one of its standard deviations has an increase of 0.122 of its standard deviation in rice production. The result is in line with and supporting the findings of Yuliana et al (2017); Salam et al (2019); Khoerunisa et al (2021); Marwin et al (2021) which stated that the use of NPK fertilizer in the production inputs had a positive effect on rice production.…”

“…Rice is one of the food crop commodities that are commonly cultivated by farmers in rural areas, because of its benefits as the staple food source for the Indonesian population. The population growth rate [which is not controlled in this country] will continue to increase the demand for rice (Hafizah et al, 2020;Marwin et al, 2021;Sumarsih et al, 2020). Therefore, the deficit between rice production and demand will lead to food insecurity (Mashadi et al, 2021).…”

“…As a result of the deficit situation which occur sequentially will increase dependence on imported food, which further will weaken national food security (Sukerta et al, 2018). As countermeasure effort to balance the rate of population growth, the government keep trying to increase the rice production (Lasmini et al, 2016;Puspitasari, 2017).However, there are various factors that had become obstacles in the effort to increasing the rice production (Marwin et al, 2021). Degradation of land and water resources, environmental damages, climate change and conversion of agricultural land to non-agricultural uses are the causes of the decline in rice production (Fauzan, 2020;Mulyani & Agus, 2017).…”

“…This figure increased in 2017 and 2018 with an area of 16,531.00 ha and 17,931.20 ha, respectively. Theoretically, low amount of farm production can be caused by not optimal use of production factors (Marwin et al, 2021).…”