Penelitian ini bertujuan  untuk menganalisis dampak contract farming terhadap kinerja usahatani kopi di Lampung. Penelitian dilakukan di Kabupaten Lampung Barat dan Tanggamus yang merupakan sentra produksi kopi di Lampung. Survei rumahtangga petani dilakukan pada bulan Mei sampai Juni 2018. Sampel pada penelitian ini berjumlah 170 responden yang terdiri dari 98 petani kontrakdan72 petani non kontrak. Penelitian ini mengestimasi dampak contract farming menggunakan teknik Propensity Score Matching (PSM). Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa contract farming berdampak positif terhadap produktivitas, harga, dan pendapatan usahatani kopi. Mempromosikan dan mendorong penyebaran contract farming secara lebih luas dapat menjadi salah satu cara untuk meningkatkan produktivitas kopi nasional, daya saing dan kesejahteraan petani.

Upaya meningkatkan ketersediaan pangan dalam membangun ketahanan pangan berkelanjutan semakin sulit dilakukan. Hal ini terkait dengan adanya masalah konversi lahan pertanian dan perubahan iklim, sehingga memperburuk kinerja produksi pertanian serta volatilitas harga pangan. Kecenderungan yang kurang kondusif ini tidak memberikan insentif bagi petani untuk berinvestasi pada pengembangan teknologi pertanian. Terkait dengan kendala tersebut, maka upaya mengurangi pemborosan pangan menjadi sangat relevan, sebagai langkah alternatif dalam meningkatkan ketersediaan pangan, sehingga pada akhirnya memperkuat ketahanan pangan. Pengurangan pemborosan pangan sebesar 25 persen, ketersediaan pangan beras di Indonesia meningkat 4,1 kg per kapita dan 2,5 kg per kapita bagi penduduk dunia. Jumlah ini tentunya akan semakin meningkat sejalan dengan menurunnya pemborosan pangan. Pemborosan pangan terjadi karena adanya persoalan pola pikir, budaya, dan kurangnya kesadaran masyarakat terhadap kehilangan nilai ekonomi pangan. Oleh karena itu, upaya pengurangan pemborosan pangan dapat dilakukan melalui sosialiasi dan kampanye informasi dan pengetahuan dengan memanfaatkan ajaran agama dan kearifan lokal dalam menumbuhkan kesadaran masyarakat akan pentingnya arti kehilangan nilai ekonomi pangan dalam membangun ketahanan pangan berkelanjutan.

Especially for Asian regions, rice is a strategic commodity because it is a staple food for most of the Asian people. In terms of agricultural land resources availability, several countries have become importers whereas the others exporters. The result of economic study in Asia shows that Cambodia and Thailand have a better agricultural land resource availability to provide rice for their people than the other countries in Asia. The rice farming system is able to give a better life to rice farmers in Malaysia, but it is unable yet to Indonesian rice farmers because of their very small landholding size, even though they have applied intensive technology. Indonesian food autonomy (for rice) is better than that of several countries in Asia, such as Nepal, Japan, the Philippine and Malaysia. ABSTRAKKhususnya bagi kawasan Asia, beras merupakan komoditas strategis karena sebagian besar penduduknya menjadikan beras sebagai makanan pokok. Terkait dengan ketersediaan sumberdaya lahan pertanian untuk memproduksi beras, sebagian negara menjadi eksportir beras, sebagian lainnya masih harus impor. Hasil kajian komparatif ekonomi padi di Asia menunjukkan bahwa Kamboja dan Thailand memiliki daya dukung lahan pertanian dalam memproduksi beras untuk memenuhi kebutuhan penduduknya paling baik. Malaysia mampu menjadikan usahatani padi memberikan kehidupan yang layak bagi petaninya, sementara usahatani padi di Indonesia belum mampu memberikan kehidupan yang layak bagi petani, karena rata-rata luas garapan petani padi di Indonesia sangat sempit, sekalipun teknologi produksi padi yang diterapkan petani Indonesia sudah cukup intensif, dibawah China, Korea, Jepang, dan Vietnam. Tingkat kemandirian pangan beras Indonesia relatif lebih baik dibanding negara Nepal, Jepang, Filipina, dan Malaysia, namun masih lemah dibandingkan negara Asia lainnya.Kata kunci : daya dukung lahan, teknologi, padi, Asia

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The performance of soybean production, productivity, and area of production as well as the demand for this commodity are intensely discussed in this article. On the other hand, the opportunity to increase the domestic production can be led by enhancing the utilization of the new sources of production growth such as: (1) Expansion of production area through extensification program and increased cropping index, (2) Increasing productivity (ton/ha), (3) Increasing yield stability per unit of area, (4) Reducing the yield gap between recommended technology and yield at farm level, and (5) Reducing yield loss during harvest and post harvest handling. In addition, the discussion also involves other aspects such as: financial feasibility of soybean farming and its competitiveness to other competing crops, comparative advantage of effort to blow up domestic production compared with import, and economic incentive of government policy to the soybean farming in three provinces, namely: West Java, Central Java, and Lampung. ABSTRAKDalam makalah ini dikemukan perkembangan produksi, produktivitas, dan kebutuhan serta perkembangan ekspor dan impor kedelai di Indonesia. Sedangkan tambahan produksi kedelai yang mampu dihasilkan dapat ditempuh dengan pemanfaatan Humber pertumbuhan produksi kedelai:(1) Perluasan areal tanam (ekstensifikasi dan peningkatan indeks pertanaman), (2) Peningkatan produktivitas (hasil/ha), (3) Peningkatan stabiliias hasil per satuan luas, (4) Mempersempit senjang hasil antara teknologi rekomendasi dengan hasil di tingkat petani, dan (5) Menekan kehilangan hasil panen dan pasca panen. Lebih lanjut, pada makalah ini juga dibahas tentang kelayakan finansial dan keuntungan kompetitif usaha tani kedelai dibandingkan dengan komoditas kompetitornya, keunggulan komparatif upaya memacu produksi kedelai di dalam negeri dibandingkan dengan impor, serta insentif ekonomi kebijaksanaan pemerintah pada usaha tani kedelai di tiga wilayah penelitian pengembangan produksi kedelai yaitu: Jabar, Jateng, dan Lampung.Kate Kunci: kedelai, sumber pertumbuhan, kelayakan finansial, dan insentif ekonomi

Global demand standard on agri-food needs quality, quantity and product readiness real time. The sustainability of raw material supply is the key to optimize the benefit. Contract farming is well known as a method to fulfil the raw material needs for industries. The study offered the key factors which were determined the coffee farmers participation in contract farming. Research location took place in coffee production center in Tanggamus and West of Lampung Region. The farmer household survey was conducted in May-June 2018. Respondent sampling amounted to 170 respondents consisting of 98 farmers who participated in contract farming and 72 non participant farmer. The logit regression model applied to determine the influencing factors of farmers' participation in contract farming. The results showed that farmer participation in contract farming was influenced by the age of the family head, number of family members, coffee harvest area, distance to the KUB, distance to the collector, market distance, and proportion of income from coffee farming.

The objective of the assessment on Rice Based Agribusiness Oriented Farming System (Sutpa) conducted in rainy season (MB) 1995/96 is to find an agribusiness development model that is capable to increase fanning efficiency and commodity's competitive advantage. The Sutpa assessment implementation main characteristics are: (1) to introduce new engineered technology packeges to enhance productivity and production efficiency; (2) to applicate technology with an economic scale; (3) to implement tight field supervision by interdicsipline team consisting of research and extension workers; (4) to applicate participatory approaches in encouraging involved farmers to play their active roles; and (5) to enhance coordination with related official and local key persons to maintain the implementation harmony beginning from its planning, implementation and evaluation. In 1995/96, Sutpa assessment implementation was concentrated in 14 provinces with an area of 46.000 Ha (92 assessment plot unit), and in the following two years it was widened in 18 and 19 provinces. Some assessment results show that rice farming using direct seeding system developed in Sutpa assessment could reduce labor utilization for 17.01 -38.56 percent and it was able to increase production and farmer's profit for 40.26 -43.74 percent and 14.12 -24.10 percent respectively compared to tilt of transplanting system. The competitive advantage analysis also shows that rice fanning direct seeding system gives a competitive profit compared to that of transplanting system's at 70.23 -82.14 percent of the existing production level. The Sutpa assessment implementation has been able to escalate new high yielding varieties and direct seeding system adoptions. PENDAHULUANSetelah pencapaian swasembacla betas tahun 1984, peningkatan produksi betas menunjukkan gejala pelandaian (leveling off), demikian pula halnya dengan produktivitas faktor produksi. Bahkan dalam beberapa tahun tertentu pencapaian produksi padi turun. Sebagai contoh pmduksi padi pada tahun 1991 menurun sebesar 2,5 persen, tahun 1994 turun 3,2 persen, dan tahun 1997 diperkirakan menurun sekitar 4,0 persen. Untuk mengamankan stok betas nasional, pada tahun-tahun tersebut pemerintah akhirnya memutuskan impor bergs dalam jumlah yang cukup besar. Di sisi lain, pertumbuhan penduduk yang masih tinggi yaitu sekitar 1,6 persen per tahun, meningkatnya pendapatan per kapita, dan berkembangnya industri makanan dan pakan mendorong permintaan akan komoditas pangan tents meningkat (PSE, 1996).Sejalan dengan tahapan dan keberhasilan pembangunan ekonomi yang telah dicapai, proses transformasi struktural perekonomian nasioV berjalan terus yang dicirikan oleh (Suryana, 1997 dan Deptan, 1996: (1) peran relatif sektor pertanian serta sumbangannya terhadap PDB dan penyerapan tenaga kerja semakin menurun, (2) pangsa ekspor bahan setengah jadi dan jadi makin besar, (3) keterkaitan antar berbagai sektor ekonomi semakin tinggi, (4) daerah pedesaan semakin terbuka, baik berupa hubungan antar desa serta antar desa dan kota m...

Integrated Crop Management-Farmer Field School Program (ICM-FFS) was one of the Indonesian government's programs, which had been recognized to increase rice production. The successful implementation of ICM-FFS can be attributed toits impact on economic (production, productivity, and income) and social (increased adoption of rice technology, capacity and skills of farmers) aspects. This research assessed ICM-FFS implementation in swampy lands from the economic aspect. The assessment was conducted in 2012 in two swampy land areas, Riau and West Kalimantan Province. The total respondents for both areas were 159 farmers consisting of ICM-FFS participants and nonparticipants. Individual interviews using structured questionnaire was the main method in gathering primary data. The decomposition model was used to analyse data including farmers' income, production, and productivity. Productivity decomposition analysis results indicated that the program was only able to increase the productivity of paddy rice in swampy land by approximately 2.73 percent compared to technological farmers. The result of this conjecture was much lower than the result of a survey that reached 20 percent. The total increase was contributed more by the farmers who adopted the technology differences than the differences in the use of production inputs. Technological differences were manifested in the form of differences in the value of the intercept and slope, which were able to contribute as much as 88.28 percent of the total increase in productivity, while the remaining 11.72 percent was derived from differences in the use of production inputs.