Analisis keefisienan teknis usaha tani padi sawah di Kecamatan Cerbon, Kabupaten Barito Kuala dan di Kecamatan Aluh-aluh, Kabupaten Banjar, Kalimantan Selatan

Abstract

The technical efficiency is meant as the ability of firm to produced maximum output given a set of inputs and available production technology.  A firm that had production does not reach maximum level is supposed to be technically inefficient.  This research aimed to assess the the technical efficiency performance of rice farming in the Sub-District of Cerbon, the District of Barito Kuala and the Sub-Disrict of Aluh-aluh, District of Banjar by employing econometric model of stochastic frontier production function. The error structure of stochastic frontier production model made up of two independent components. One is a general random error and the other is an error which assumed to account for technical inefficiency in production. The method of maximum likelihood estimation (MLE) was applied to estimate parameters of model which were then used to count maximum level of output possible to produce by firms given a set of inputs. The technical efficiency index, expressed by TE index, 0 ≤ TE ≤ 1, was measured as ratio between actual output and assumed maximum level of output posible to produced.  The results showed an average index of TE rice farming in the Sub-District of Cerbon, the District of Barito Kuala and the Sub-Disrict of Aluh-aluh, District of Banjar was 0.87 indicating the performance of production was relatively good. However, there was 3.33% of all the rice farming considered technically inefficient. Such result imply that some treatments may be set to consolidate production managerial aspects in order to improve the technical efficiency of production.