Efisiensi usahatani melon di kecamatan wedi kabupaten klaten=Efficiency of Melon Farm at Kecamatan Wedi in Kabupaten

ABSTRACT The aim of this research was to identify and analysis : the factors that affected production, social economy factors that affected Technical Efficiency Rating, the allocation efficiency of production factors of melon, factors that affected profit and the economic efficiency of melon farm. The research conducted at two villages : Pesu and Jiwo Wetan, Kecamatan Wedi, Kabupaten Klaten. The method of sample selection was proportional random sampling with 60 respondents who planted melon on 2003. The analyze method is Ordinary Least Squared (OLS) regression and Maximum Likelihood Estimation (MLE). Technical Efficiency analyzed by frontier stochastic production function type of Cobb-Douglas, Allocation Efficiency by marginal value product compare with the price of input, Economic Efficiency rating analyzed by frontier stochastic unit output price profit function type Cobb-Douglas. Production factors that affected production were ZA, liquid pesticides, labor, farm size, farm scale and TER. Some factors that affected real income were real price of seed, NPK, powder pestisides, wage of labor and farm size. Social economy factors that influence technical efficiency were experiances, intensity of agriculture extention and farm scale. Result of research indicated ZA, seed, NPK, powder pestisides and labor were not allocated efficiently. The result of research showed that melon farm was profitable but technically and economically not efficient yet. Key words : melon, efficiency, production factor, production, profi