Status Penguasaan Tanah di Usahatani Padi dan Implikasi Ekonominya : Sebuah Studi di Pedesaan Jawa Barat

The study of the role of tenancy in paddy production is very important since tenancy may have affected the performance of rice intensification programs adopted by the government to increase production. The Department of Agriculture has presumed that a tenant may have less incentive than an owner operator to increase production and to participate in the intensification programs. If this is true, production may be increased by changing the institutional setting through tenancy reform. The methodology used to test for presence of economic efficiency is through the profit function approach rather than direct production function of linear programming approaches. The unit output prices (UOP) profit function is a more powerful technique for testing economic, price and technical efficiency among farmers with different statuses of land operating.