FEASIBILITY OF RICE FARMING WITH DIRECT SEED PLANT SYSTEM IN YABA MARU VILLAGE, TANAH MIRING DISTRICT

Indonesia is an agrarian country where most of the population lives from the agricultural sector. The largest rice producing area in Papua Province is Merauke Regency. This can be seen from the potential of rice production in Merauke Regency in 2015, which amounted to 156,489 tons with a harvest area of 35,124 ha. One of the rice cultivation systems is known as the planting system, namely the Direct Seed Planting system (tabela) besides the Moving Planting System. The study was carried out in Yaba Maru village as one of the villages which is a center for rice production in Tanah Miring District with 20 farmers selected by considering the implementation of the tabela system on their farming where each planting system has advantages and disadvantages, so the use of both planting systems it is adapted to environmental conditions both internal and external farming environment. This study aims to analyze the feasibility of rice farming with the tabela system. Using the Revenue Cost Ratio (R/C) analysis method to determine the feasibility of farming. Break Event Point (BEP) method to determine the lowest selling price of farm products. The results show that rice farming is feasible to be cultivated with a R / C value of 1.86. BEP value of product price is Rp. 4.867, - / kg and the number of BEP of the product unit is 601 Kg. shows that if farming wants to get a profit, it must sell its product at a price more than the price of BEP.