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Dampak Konversi Lahan Pertanian Bagi Taraf Hidup Petani di Kelurahan Landasan Ulin Barat Kecamatan Liang Anggang Kota Banjarbaru Image
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Dampak Konversi Lahan Pertanian Bagi Taraf Hidup Petani di Kelurahan Landasan Ulin Barat Kecamatan Liang Anggang Kota Banjarbaru

The study is aimed to describe the condition of farmers livelihood before andafter land conversion as well as knowing its socio-economic impact. It is aqualitative study, where respondents were purposively selected by usingsnowball sampling. The results show that the change of farmers' incomebefore and after land conversion is varied – increase, decrease or no change.Housing and assets ownership has not changed much both before and afterthe conversion. Health condition is also relatively stable. Land conversion hassocial and economic impacts as farmers should shift and diversificate theirlivelihoods on agriculture and non-agriculture sector. The change onhousehold income is depending on the type of new business established.Land conversion also has environmental effect since land conversion forresidential area is followed by river backfill which create water flowdisturbance.
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The objectives of the research are to find out the sources of farmer's income, investment capital needed by the farmer, to analyze factors influencing the farmer's investment, and to identify problems faced by tidal land farmers in investing. The descriptive analysis indicated that the greatest contribution of the income of non surjan tidal land farmers and the irrigated land farmers was derived from the rice farming while the tidal land farmers with surjan system were originated from orange. The biggest capital of farming investment was the investment for land purchase, livestock, and farm equipment. It could be indicated from regression analysis that the off-farm income, the acreage, and the education level significantly and positively influenced the investment while the number of working family members and the age of farmers had negative influence. There were no significant differences in investment spending between farmers in tidal land villages and irrigated villages whereas there were significant differences between the farmers in surjan and non-surjansystem villages where the farmers in the village with surjan system hadsmaller investment in farm equipment but bigger one in education, noneducation, and total investment than the farmers in the village with non-surjan system. The limited wage labor, skill limitation, the lack of awareness and the environmental factors were the constraints in the investment practiced by farmers in tidal land. The limited capital was the separate obstacle to the small farmers.
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Penerapan Regresi Kuadrat Terkecil Berbatas pada Pendugaan Fungsi Produksi Cobb-Douglas

This research aimed to estimate and analyse Cobb-Doglas production function of paddy farming and to evaluate return to scale of production, as well as to apply least square regression restricted by constant return to scale (CRTS) assumption. The results of estimation and analysis by unrestricted least square regression was statistically unsatisfactory. Some factors of production i.e. chemical and organic fertilizer as well as chemical pesticide were not significant. Moreover, chemical pesticide had negative elasticity of production which was implied negative marginal product and, thereby, meaning that the factor of production was overutilized and had negative effect to paddy production. Introducing restriction of CRTS assumption to Cobb-Doglas production function had considerably improved the results in three things. Firstly, the existence of restriction was significant so that it was no doubt about the restriction. Secondly, all factors of production were exhibited statistically significant meaning that they had important influences to paddy production. Thirdly, the elasticity of production of all factors of production were positive and less than one. It implied that the utilizing of those factors of production were in the stage II of neoclassical production function where it was more favourable choice to operate the production operation in terms of profit maximization.