Analisis efisiensi ekonomi dan daya saing usahatani jagung pada lahan kering di Kabupaten Tanah Laut Kalimantan Selatan

Abstract

South Kalimantan is well known as a province with large area of dryland. This potency can be used in maize farming that will increase national maize production and play an important role as import substitution. One of the major problems in maize farming is its low productivity that might be caused by its low efficiency of input use. The objectives of this research are: (1) analyzing factors influencing maize production and analyzing dryland farming efficiencies, both in technical and allocative, and (2) analyzing dryland maize farming competitiveness in Kabupaten Tanah Laut South Kalimantan, and the efficiency effect to its competitiveness. The Methods used are the stochastic frontier production function and the dual cost function for the first objective, and criterion of private cost ratio (PCR) and domestic resources cost ratio (DRCR) for the second objective. The results show that land, seed, organic fertilizer, P-fertilizer, pesticide, labor and land treatment significantly influence production. Generally, the farmers at research area have been technically efficient but allocatively inefficient. Age, education, experience and membership in farmer union are not significant to technical efficiency rate. The maize commodity in Kabupaten Tanah Laut has competitive and comparative advantages and also able to finance its domestic inputs, both in private and social prices. The increasing of allocative efficiency will increase the competitiveness.