ENVIRONMENTAL EFFICIENCY OF SEMI-ORGANIC RICE FARMING IN BANTUL REGENCY
Abstract
The problems faced in organic rice farming is decreasing quality and fertility of land
caused by the use of non-organic fertilizers or pesticides and also by climate change. This study
aims to determine the environmental efficiency of semi-organic rice farming. The sampling
method was purposively carried out consisting of 115 farmers from four farmer groups in Bantul
Regency and had implemented semi-organic rice farming. The technical analysis used was
Stochastic Frontier Translog Analysis with one input variable namely N fertilizer which was
thought to be an input that could decrease environmental quality (detrimental environment
input). The results showed that the coefficient value used to analyze the environmental
efficiency from the Stochastic Frontier Analysis Translog is the coefficient value that interacts
with N fertilizer. The environmental efficiency of semi-organic rice farming is still very low,
ranging from 0.1434 to 0.6541 with an average of 0.40. This efficiency value shows that semiorganic
rice production will survive or even increase by reducing 60% from the use of N
fertilizer. Environmental efficiency is influenced by the use of factors of production which are
detrimental to the environment, climate change (temperature changes) and water resources
management.