Decomposition Analysis of Rice-Based Integrated Crop Management-Farmer Field School (ICM-FFS) on Swampy Lands in Indonesia

Abstract

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.