Technical Efficiency of Paddy’s Farming in Various Types of Paddy’s Seeds in Indonesia

Abstract

The increasing need for food along with increasing population is one of the problems that must be resolved by Indonesia nation. The government is trying to increase rice production and productivity by using certified seeds. Certified seeds is expected to affect technical efficiency of rice farming. The objectives of this studies are to analyze the level of technical efficiency and to identify the factors that influence the technical efficiency of rice farming in various types of main sources of rice seeds in Indonesia. The study uses secondary data that obtained from Central Bureau of Statistic (BPS) as a results from the 2014 Rice Plant Business Household Survey (SPD 2014). Data were analyzed using stochastic frontier. The results showed that the average technical efficiency level achieved by farmers in rice farming is 0,656 or less than 0,70 (<0,70) so it can be said that rice farming in Indonesia is still technically inefficient. Factors that affecting the technical efficiency of rice farming in various types of main sources of rice seeds in Indonesia were age, formal education, dummy participation of agricultural extension, and dummy certified seeds.
 Keywords: certified seeds, rice farming, stochastic frontier analysis, technical efficiency, non-certified seeds

Urbanization Impacts on Rice Farming Technical Efficiency: A Comparison of Irrigated and Non-Irrigated Areas in Indonesia

“…It can be interpreted that an increase in the use of seeds by one percent will reduce production by one percent. This result is in line with previous research conducted by [51,53]. However, these results contradicted another research, which concluded that a certain, good method or procedural seeding could increase production [44].…”

“…The chemical manure variable had a significant positive effect on production, indicating that a one-percent increase in fertilizer will increase production by one percent. The estimation result is confirmed by the result of [43,[47][48][49][50][51][52][53]. The estimation results suggested that rice farmers have used the optimal amount of chemical manure as an input.…”

“…The labor input usage also had a negative value, which means that the addition of labor by one percent will reduce production by one percent. The negative coefficient of labor input is confirmed by [50,51,53].…”

Technical Efficiency of Local Rice Farming in Tidal Swamp Areas of Central Kalimantan, Indonesia: Determinants and Implications

“…Moreover, one of the essential characteristics of econometric models (SFA) is that it allows a specification for panel data and the construction of confidence intervals [41]. Several previous studies in various countries used SFA to assess the TE level of rice farming [19,22,25,27,28,30,32,34,[42][43][44].…”

“…Enhancing TE is a crucial factor in stimulating productivity, and thus, studying TE is integral to evaluating farming efficiency and identifying methods to augment productivity, ultimately achieving optimal conditions. Numerous studies have been conducted on TE of rice farming and its determinants in various locations in Indonesia [18][19][20][21][22][23], Asia [24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31], and Africa [32][33][34][35], employing diverse approaches/methods. Despite the abundance of studies on TE in rice farming, the focus has primarily been on irrigated and rainfed rice farms, while studies on tidal swamp areas remain limited.…”