Prospek Pengembangan Mesin Tanam Pindah Bibit Padi Dalam Rangka Mengatasi Kelangkaan Tenaga Kerja Tanam Bibit Padi

Abstract

Farm labor scarcity could delay planting time and not simultaneously planting, so that it has influence to the index of rice planting, OPT’s disturbance which eventually affects to rice production. This condition requires the presence of the rice seedling planting machines, one of those is rice transplanter. This research aims to find out the technical and financial feasibility of rice transplanter viewed from business services and farming utilizing rice transplanter. The application of rice transplanter, was carried out in Somomorodukuh village, Plupuh sub district, Sragen district in MT-1 2012/2013. The collected data includes the performance and the operational cost of rice transplanter, paddy productivity as well as the cost of rice farming’s. For finding out the financial feasibility of rice transplanter’s business services, it was used Net Present Value (NPV), Internal Rate of Return (IRR), BenefitCost Ratio (B/C) and Pay Back Periode (PP) analysis. To find out the feasibility of planting technology change, it was used Losses and Gains analysis. The result shows that (1) the use of rice transplanter can help solve the problem of farm labor scarcity, (2) the business service of rice transplanter is feasible to run and to develop widely with NPV=Rp22.4 millions, IRR=59.59%, B/C=1.26 and PP=2.42 years, (3) planting using rice transplanter can increase income as much as Rp2,690,000/ha/season with marginal B/C as much as 23.42, so that it’s worth to widely be implemented, and (4) the use of rice transplanter can benefit both sides, namely the owner and the farmer.

The ANALISIS KEKUATAN POROS DAN RODA BERSIRIP PADA ALAT PENANAM PADI PORTABEL MELALUI PENDEKATAN SIMULASI

“…Untuk saat ini proses penanaman padi di daerah penanaman masih menggunakan cara manual, hal ini dikarenakan alat penanam padi otomatis masih relatif mahal. Alat penanam padi sendiri adalah alat yang digunakan untuk menanam bibit padi yang telah disemaikan terlebih dahulu dengan umur atau ketinggian tertentu, pada areal tanah sawah kondisi siap tanam [2]. Alat penanam padi atau istilah lainnya rice transplanter memberikan kemudahan dalam penanaman benih padi bagi para petani pada saat tibanya musim tanam [3].…”