MEASUREMENT OF TECHNICAL EFFICIENCY OF JH37 CORN SEED IN THE CONDITIONS OF TANAH LAUT DISTRICT OF SOUTH KALIMANTAN, INDONESIA

Abstract

The need for corn in Tanah Laut District in the last seven years has increased significantly, although in certain years it has decreased it is certainly caused by factors that farmers cannot predict such as pests, uncertain climatic conditions, etc. The production of JH37 seed corn breeding is very important to maintain the availability of corn seeds, so as not to experience a shortage in the supply of conventional cultivated corn seeds. One of the efforts to increase the availability of corn seeds in addition to increasing planting area, it is also necessary to look at what production inputs affect production, so that farmers can calculate appropriate production inputs. In addition, technical efficiency measurement can later provide an idea of whether farmers have done farming in technically efficient conditions, so that it can be a reference to increase productivity from seed corn breeding. This research was carried out in Tanah Laut Regency from April 2022 to June 2023, namely from the stages of making research proposals, taking data, processing data to research reports. This study used the census method, where the population was taken all as respondents with a total of 64 captive farmers who carried out JH37 corn seed farming in Tanah Laut Regency.

Keywords

• corn
• technical efficiency
• seed
• stochastic frontier