Household Economic Analysis on Pig Farms in East Flores Regency East Nusa Tenggara Province

Objectives of the research were to analyze contribution of pig farms to the household economic and factors influence the farms income. Data were collected since December 2018 until May 2019 in Bantala Village Lewolema Sub-district East Flores Regency East Nusa Tenggara Province. A hundred farmer categorized in farm scale of I, II, and III was selected as respondents based on purposive sampling. The data, then, were analyzed by applying descriptive analysis and multiple regression. The result shows that average percentage of income contribution to the pig farms household economic of scale I, II, and III were 43.33%, 53.98%, and 61.72%, respectively. Further, average percentage of total income contribution to the economic household was 54%. Factors influence dominantly influence the economic household income are number of pig owned, farms income without the income of pig farms, and non farm income; while factors that significantly have no influence to the economic household income are the farmers' age and range of land use in agriculture.