This study aims to analyze (1) the effect of land area, cost of production, the number of working hours and labor to the production of corn farmers and on the welfare of farm households in Gerokgak District of Buleleng Regency (2) whether the production of corn farmers mediate land area, cost of production, the number of hours worked and labor for the welfare of corn farmers in Gerokgak District of Buleleng Regency. This research was conducted in fourteen villages in the Gerokgak District of Buleleng Regency, Bali Province. Bali has a dry rainfed land which has great potential to be cultivated into productive land, Gerokgak one of the Districts in Bali Province has the widest dry land planted with corn as a commodity suitable for dry land, but every year it decreases production thus affecting welfare. The method used in this research is descriptive quantitative. The population in this study were corn farmers in Gerokgak District, Buleleng Regency. The data analysis technique in this study uses the Path. The sample in this study was ninety-one using a purposive sampling technique for total sampling taken from all villages in Gerokgak District. The research conclusions: (1) variables land area, production costs, and labor have a positive and significant effect on farmer production variables, (2) variable number of working hours has a negative and significant effect on farmer production variables and (3) production costs negatively and no significant effect on the welfare of corn farmers (4) the number of working hours has a positive and insignificant effect on the welfare of corn farmers (5) labor has a positive and significant effect on the welfare of corn farmers, and (6) farmer production has a positive and significant effect on welfare of corn farmers.
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