ECONOMIC IMPACT ASSESSMENT OF INTEGRATED CROP MANAGEMENT FARMER FIELD SCHOOL PROGRAM ON CORN PRODUCTION IN INDONESIA

International Journal of Food and Agricultural Economics

卷:2

I Ketut Kariyasa¹ 

[1] Indonesian Center for Agricultural Socio Economic and Policy Studies, West Java, Indonesia;

关键词: Corn;    Indonesia;    Farmer Field School;    productivity;    comparative advantage;   

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来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

Domestic supply of corn in Indonesia has not been able to meet demand satisfactorily dueto demand rising faster than supply. Therefore, Indonesia has been continuously importingcorn about of 10% of the total demand. To address this problem, the Indonesian governmentstarted to implement the Farmer Field School of Integrated Crop Management (ICM-FFS)program on corn production since 2009. This study aimed to assess the impact of ICM-FFSon corn productivity, comparative and competitive advantages to produce corn as well asfarmer’s income. The study found that ICM-FFS program could increase corn productivityby 30.95% of non ICM-FFS farms, of which 27.94% contributed by the difference in inputuse, while only 3.01% contributed by technological change. ICM-FFS farms were able toincrease farmer’s income by 71.03% and social welfare by 94.69% compared to non ICMFFSfarms. Through this program, Indonesia had higher comparative advantage inproducing corn as an import substitute. The provision of competitive input and outputmarkets, enhanced technical assistance to improve corn productivity and quality, andincreasing attention on corn ICM-FFS development could be considered as policy directionsto improve the next implementation strategies of corn production in Indonesia.

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