Abstract:
The research purpose to analyze the difference in cost, revenue, and efficiency of rice farmer tillage system and no-tillage system in Mukti Jaya village Rimba Melintang sub district Rokan Hilir regency. This research method using a disproportionate stratified random sampling method. The number of samples are 27 farmers where 15 rice farmers tillage system and 12 rice farmers no-tillage system.
These results indicate that rice farming did by both group farmers was profitable, where total production cost of rice farmers tillage system is Rp.4,885,244.59 and total production cost of rice farmers no-tillage system is Rp.4,808,388.89 with the average income of farmers rice farming tillage systems is Rp.9,147,455.41 per hectare/growing season and the average income of farmers rice farming no-tillage system is Rp.6,167,319.44 per hectare/growing season. Farming efficiency average or Return Cost of Ratio (RCR) for paddy rice tillage system is Rp.3,17, while for rice farmers no-tillage system is Rp.2,37. From t-test result found 15,817 with t-table in the amount of 2,060. This shows that net income received by farmers tillage system greater than no-tillage system.
