Impact of Economic Factors Changes on Paddy Farmers Household Income in Lebak Swampland (Case of Swampland in HSU District, South Kalimantan Province-Indonesia) (original) (raw)

2013, Journal of Economics and Sustainable Development

Paddy farmer household at Lebak swampland are poor because of low income. Efforts to increase household paddy farmer's income in Lebak swampland are alway and expansion area (extensification farm household incomes in the Lebak models, with simultaneous equations. The results showed that the increase in input prices of paddy (seeds, fertilizers, pesticides and labor outside the family) would decrease farmer household income. The increased of input price followed by an increased in paddy output price in same proportion were able to increase farm households income. Seed subsidies are also able to increase the household income. In contrast; paddy area expansion or extensification would decrease household income. Therefo lebak swampland is not priority choice.

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