The efficiency of input usage of organic paddy farming in Indonesia

Muhaimin Abdul Wahib
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Muhaimin Abdul Wahib: Faculty of Agriculture, University of Brawijaya

Russian Journal of Agricultural and Socio-Economic Sciences, 2016, vol. 57, issue 9, 16-20

Abstract: Organic farming is an activity in the agricultural sector which emphasizes the importance of environmental issues. Activity in this area has the objective to increase production, productivity, independence of farmers and produce high quality food. The objectives research of this study are: to analyse factors that effects the efficiency of technical input; to analyze the level of technical efficiency of input use, and to analyze the factors that influence the use of input technical inefficiency. Based on the results, the study showed that the factors have influence the efficiency of input use technically were land, seeds, manure, and organic pesticides. The average level of technical efficiency in the area was 93.3%. While the factors that positively affects the level of technical inefficiency were age and number of family.

Keywords: ORGANIC FARMING; STOCHASTIC FRONTIER PRODUCTION FUNCTION; TECHNICAL EFFICIENCY AND INEFFICIENCY (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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