AGRARIS: Journal of Agribusiness and Rural Development Research Vol. 3 No.2 Juli 2017 NURLIZA*, EVA DOLOROSA, ABDUL HAMID A. YUSRA Agribusiness Dept., Faculty of Agriculture, University of Tanjungpura nurliza.spmm@gmail.com Rice Farming Performance for Sustainable Agriculture and Food Security in West Kalimantan h t t ps : / / doi .or g/ 10.18196/ agr .3248 ABSTRACT For more than three decades, domestic rice production was not able to meet its grow- ing demand and showed in poor perfor- mance. This research aims to analyze the performance of rice farming in West Kalimantan. The research was conducted using descriptive methods through inter- views. The data was analyzed to describe farmer p ers onal character, s k ill and knowlwdge, risk analysis, and technical ef- ficiency employing stochastic frontier model. This study proved that farmer had 3 to 6 years of pupilage attainment; used rainfed; widely used Ciherang seeds; most of them had 0.25-1.25 ha; only 20% of rice farming could achieve over 6.5 tons/ha. The distribution of technical efficiency showed that only 17.41% of rice farmer is able to achieve sufficient; while 60-70% of techni- cal efficiency is achieved by 30.37% of rice farmer. However, the risk of production, prices, and income each was than 0.5. Keywords: farming performance, rice farm- ers, risk analysis, technical efficiency. INTRODUCTION Rice is one of the necessary strategic food for more than 90 percent of Indonesian. In addition, it’s also a strategic political commodity since the early of independence so that Indonesia has tried enormous to extend rice produc- tion. However, for more than three decades, domestic rice production wasn’t able to meet its growing demand that proved by increasing of rice import from other countries. This condition was created worse harassed from the growth of palm oil plantation, particularly in West Kalimantan and low rice productivity. Rice productivity in West Kalimantan in line with data Statistics Indonesia in 2013 showed 3.184 tons/ha and contributed 2 percent of domestic produc- tion. However, there have been still several rice was imported, from Java through inter-island trade and there have been 13.69% per annum of rice unloading at PT. Pelindo. Thus, there’s a possible chance to extend rice production in West Kalimantan, both amount and quality. Furthermore, in recent years, there have been many programs issued by government to implement sustainable develop- ment of rice. However, these efforts haven’t successful yet. Several researches further as recent surveys in Indonesia have also shown a considerably lower performance of farm management. This is often because of farmers lacking the management skills to manage their farming systems prop- erly. Consequences include reductions in crop yields and a waste of some natu- ral resources. To enhance farm performance, it’s necessary not solely to pro- mote the implementation of farming programming strategies, however also improving system designs and performance and upgrading farmers’ skills to control and manage their farming system more efficient. The on-farm performance, highly depends on farmers’ management abilitys for usually no provision is created for adopting systems to the local operating conditions or to the farmers’ technical skill for managing their systems. Any problems also need to dig deeper by using farm production performance data, either alone or in combination with financial data. Then, the next step is to diagnose the specific cause(s) that should be followed by efforts to find alterna- tive solutions. The most promising solutions should be evaluated by develop- mailto:nurliza.spmm@gmail.com 85 Vol. 3 No. 2 Juli 2017 ing budgets to find the impacts on profitability and on cash flow. For major changes, developing an implementation plan is needed to go with these changes and continue monitoring farm performance to see if these changes are working as in- tended. The used of data performance assessments are crucial for the farmers because it can help farmers to plan for the long- term staffing and worker development that by considering the three Ps-productivity (what was done), personal traits (how it was done, conduct) and proficiency (skill) (Billikopf, 2014). The data performance assessments can also use to raise the wages or other rewards, to set up a coaching session and dis- ciplinary procedures. The benefit of performance data also in line with (Elferink, Kuneman, Visser, & Van Der Wal, 2012) that also allowed farmers to compare and track their performance to others in the same region over the years. The performance data also give more comprehension for farmers to understand of various practice impacts and adapt over time for sustainability and mitigate those impacts. Food companies could assess the performance of their supply base (farmers) and extensive benchmark of sourcing agricultural products over the years for own or other food companies in the same region. However, farmers need carefully to strike the right bal- ance between productivity and personal traits because the over-emphasis on personal traits may increase compliance, at the expense of both creativity and performance or unethical behavior. Therefore, this research aims to analyze the perfor- mance of rice farming in West Kalimantan. METHODS The research was conducted within the three districts (Kubu Raya, Singkawang, and Sambas) that was the central location of food crop production and appropriate area for the rice development program in West Kalimantan with in- terviews using 270 participants. The size of rice farmers met the criteria of multivariate analysis to estimate the appropri- ate indicators. The inteview using an unstructured or semi-structured set of questions to get devote complete attention to every participant, listen actively and establish good result; helpful with difficult recruiting; elicit the candid responses during a private setting the personal and/or professional topics of dis- cussion; fewer distractions; faster and cheaper; and deeper insights (Turner, 2010; Alshenqeeti, 2014). The findings of this study are structured base on farm performance assessment to meet sustainable farming. One way to classify on-the-job farmer behavior base on data per- formance assessments is to respond these following questions (i) what was done (such as productivity); (iii) How it was done (personal traits); (iii) What skill farmers had (proficiency). Productivity here can be measured in terms of specific per- formance accomplishments. While, personal traits such as motivation and willingness to join on cooperation may con- sidered that can be translated into an achievement and how well an employee reports on assignment completion (produc- tivity). Furthermore, proficiency, skill and knowledge plays an important role in work performance. When assessments address worker proficiency factors to help assure in overcom- ing deficiency that may be blocking future performance or growth. The data was analyzed using descriptive table to de- scribe how the farming was done and the farmers skill. The model is based on the assumption of variable returns to scale (VRS) and decision-making unit (DMU) in optimal condi- tion. Criteria for efficiency of technical efficiency of rice farm- ing in Indonesia is above 70% (Kusnadi, Tinaprilla, Susilowati, & Purwoto, 2011); (Murniati, Mulyo, Irham, & Hartono, 2014); (Suharyanto, Darwanto, & Widodo, 2015). RESULTS DAN DISCUSSIONS Data on socio-demographic profile of the rice farmers were collected in terms of age, religion, ethnic, marriageable age, family members, and family expenses (Table 1). Based on the ages, majority of rice farmers is over forty years old and followed by over 30-40 year olds and over 20-30 year olds. The biggest proportion of population concerned in agriculture has faced a great challenge since most of youth as next generation doesn’t intend in agriculture. The large mass of farmers still found in farming corroborates the justifica- tion for the study and in line with (Lasmini, Nurmalina, & Rifin, 2016) and (Khanal, Koirala, & Regmi 2016); this can be not a good index to improved productivity as a result of farmers’ productivity is deemed to decrease as they age. This makes it almost impossible for farmers in most developing countries to retire from active agricultural service and thus requires an inquiry into the effects of ageing on their agricul- tural activities as this has rural-urban migration and disen- chantment of the younger generations from farming (Fasina, 2013). Ministry of Agriculture (2007) additionally declared that agriculture sector doesn’t offer an attractive incentive because of the relatively low output prices, expensive of in- put prices, and the narrow of land tenure. On religion aspect, 97.41% farmers are Muslim. This find- 86 AGRARIS: Journal of Agribusiness and Rural Development Research ing was in line with majority population’s faith in West Kalimantan as Muslim (59.52%). According to Statistics In- donesia (BPS, 2015), 57.41% farmers are Melayu ethnic be- cause the center of paddy farming are within the coastal area that are usually dominated by this ethnic and solely small amount of farmers are Madura ethnic. Meanwhile, consider- ing marriageable ages, farmer usually had married over 11 to 22 years (45.93%) and over 22 to 33 years (47.41%). The fact that the majority of the respondents is married over 11 years in line with their age that mostly over 40 years and will imply that couples are engaged in cooperative efforts in farming activities or operation. Their wives can so be a source of sup- port for them even in their old age (Fasina, 2013). Regarding members of the family, most of the farmer has more than equal to 2 to 4 of relations (71.85%). This finding was in line with (Deptan, 2007) and it indicated that farmers have started to pay attention to the quality of life for family members. The impact on farming indicated that there have been labor shortage within the family that further led to a rise in labor from outside the family and mechanization. For information on expense of household farmers were collected to explain the proportion of food expenses and non-food expenses. It had been found that 72.59% of rice farmers had spent on food but Rp.1, 500,000.00/ month, because the non-food spending has reached 80th. The most of rice grown has spent on food is slightly under the non-food goods indi- cated that the amount of social welfare is slightly increased and they want to change the level of life. (Deptan, 2007) verified that the spending on non-food goods are typically more popular within the aspects of health and education for their children to induce better occupation outside the agri- cultural sector within the future and based on a national survey of rice consumption tends to decrease for farmers household too. Meanwhile, personal trait and proficiency-skill knowledge of rice farmers considered in the study included educational attainment, farm experiences, type of irrigation, member in farmers group, type of seed, sources of seed, family income, and working time as presented in Table 2. TABLE 1. SOCIO-DEMOGRAPHIC CHARACTERISTICS OF THE RICE FARMERS Socio-demographic characteristics Freq. (%) Age: > 20- 30 years 3 1.11 > 30- 40 years 59 21.85 > 40 years 208 77.04 Religion: Islam 263 97.41 Christianity 3 1.11 Catholic 4 1.48 Ethnicity: Bugis 41 15.19 Melayu 155 57.41 Jawa 56 20.74 Madura 9 3.33 Others 9 3.33 Marriageable ages: <11 years 3 1.11 ≥11-22 years 124 45.93 >22-33 years 128 47.41 >33-44 years 13 4.81 >44 years 2 0.74 Family members: <2 50 18.52 ≥2-4 194 71.85 >4-6 21 7.78 >6-8 2 0.74 >8 3 1.11 Expenses/month: Food: < Rp 1,500,000.00 196 72.59 > Rp 1,500,000.00 - Rp.3,500,000.00 62 22.96 > Rp 3,500,000.00 - Rp.5,000,000.00 12 4.44 Non-food: < Rp 1,500,000.00 216 80.00 > Rp 1,500,000.00 - Rp.3,500,000.00 52 19.26 > Rp 3,500,000.00 - Rp.5,000,000.00 2 0.74 In Table 2, the level of pupillage attainment of the rice farmers shown that the majority of the respondents had 3-6 years (52.59%) that mean they only finished or unfinished on elementary school education (Lasmini, Nurmalina, & Rifin, 2016) This means that the levels of illiteracy among older rice farmers are higher as the majority of the farmers can neither read nor write. This had implication for farmers’ use of agricultural information or technology adoption, mar- ket access, competitiveness, and the development of the agri- cultural sector (Hobbs, 2003); Livingston, Schonberger, & Delaney, 2011; (Ferroni, & Zhou, 2011); (Awotide, Diagne, & Amonona, 2012). (Ophanhdala, 2009) even expressed that the farmers’ education is quantitatively important role in the agricultural performance. While, concerning farm experience, 41.11% of rice farmers had over 12-24 years that was indi- cated that farm performance have significant impact on the 87 Vol.3 No.2 Juli 2017 variation of output (Julius, & Chukwumah, 2014). On types of irrigation, most of rice farmers in West Kalimantan used rainfed and followed by irrigation (27.78%). The use of rainfed is because of the constraints of funds allo- cated for irrigation by local governments. However, in each rainfed and irrigated agriculture, farm yields and financial returns are also ruled briefly to medium-term by alternative factors, including: the quality of soil and land resources on the farm; the systems of land use and rotations that best suit the land resource and conjointly the climate; and the way a lot of money is invested with in optimising economic returns and adopting improved farming practices to overcome con- straints on yield. This finding was in line with (Cassman, 2016); to identify the foremost promising solutions requires robust assessment of crop yield trajectories, food production capacity at local to global scales, the role of irrigated agricul- ture, and water use efficiency is effective; the policies and regulations are required to make sure that water resources aren’t being depleted or degraded. Regarding members in farmers group, 60.37% rice farm- ers belong to farmers groups for seed, fertilizers, pesticide aid and 9.26% for tractors, sprayers, rice thresher aids from the government. The link between social capital and collec- tive action among farmers has been well documented in the literature; highlighted the importance of collective action specific to rising small-holder benefits inside the value chain and enabling them to comprehend market access and bar- gaining power (Ramdwar, Valerie, & Ganpat, 2014). Considering types of seed, Ciherang is more widely used than the Inpara 1, Inpara 3, hybrid, and Inpara 2. In direct seeding, seeds are sown directly within the field. Whereas in transplanting, the seedlings are at the start raised in seed- beds before they are planted within the field. Rice farmers habitually select the appropriate seed base on locality, kind of soil, rice ecosystem, and additionally the availability of inputs and labor. However, a number of the things that are done for many years by rice farmers in West Kalimantan to create rice plants grow have unfortunately reduced their natu- ral potential. This new system of rice intensification changes these ancient practices to bring out of the rice plant vital prospects for increasing production. The yields that will be achieved by every individual farmer will rely on several things: in the care of source of seed also became one of a way to make sure the rice productivity is guaranteed. This finding proved that source of seed from the government was most preferred by rice farmers (28.89%) because the quality is more secure and reliable. TABLE 2. PERSONAL TRAIT OF RICE FARMERS Personal Trait Freq. (%) Pupilage attainment: < 3 years 31 11.48 ≥ 3 - 6 years 142 52.59 > 6 - 9 years 64 23.70 >9 -12 years 30 11.11 > 12 years 3 1.11 Farm experiences: < 12 years 47 17.41 ≥ 12-24 years 111 41.11 > 24- 36 years 71 26.30 >36-48 years 31 11.48 > 48 years 10 3.70 Types of irrigation: Rainfed 193 71.48 Irrigation 75 27.78 Tidal 2 0.74 Members in farmer group: Yes (support with tractors, sprayers, rice thresher) 25 9.26 Yes (support with seed, fertilizers, pesticides) 163 60.37 Yes (support with training) 31 11.48 No (no training) 45 16.67 No (no information) 6 2.22 Types of seed: Inpara 1 58 21.48 Inpara 2 36 13.33 Inpara 3 54 20.00 Ciherang 81 30.00 Hybrid 41 15.19 Sources of seed: Government 78 28.89 Private 47 17.41 One’s own 26 9.63 Government and private 64 23.70 Government and one’s own 55 20.37 Family income: On-Farm: < Rp.1,500,000.00 88 32.59 > Rp.1,500,000.00 - Rp.3,500,000.00 84 31.11 > Rp.3,500,000.00 - Rp.5,000,000.00 51 18.89 > Rp.5,000,000.00 - Rp.7,000,000.00 42 15.56 > Rp.7,000,000.00 5 1.85 Off-Farm : < Rp.1,500,000.00 37 78.72 > Rp.1,500,000.00 - Rp.3,500,000.00 7 14.89 > Rp.3,500,000.00 - Rp.5,000,000.00 3 6.38 Non-Farm : < Rp.1,500,000.00 45 48.39 > Rp.1,500,000.00 - Rp.3,500,000.00 22 23.66 > Rp.3,500,000.00 - Rp.5,000,000.00 16 17.20 > Rp.5,000,000.00 - Rp.7,000,000.00 8 8.60 > Rp.7,000,000.00 2 2.15 88 AGRARIS: Journal of Agribusiness and Rural Development Research One of the biggest constraints of the consecutive adop- tion of improved varieties is that the provision of seed. Mean- while, access to seed may be a necessary condition for im- proved seed adoption and also the adoption of improved seed is a crucial component of agricultural productivity, food se- curity and sustainable economic process. Therefore, the per- sistence of lack of access to certified improved rice seed can jeopardize the efforts to attain self-reliance in rice produc- tion, and also the dependence on import would still expose the state to international shocks. Knowledge of existing varieties, perception regarding the attributes of improved varieties, household wealth and ac- cessibility of the active labor force are major determinants for adoption of improved technologies. The adoption of im- proved agricultural technologies has a significant positive impact on farmers’ integration into output market and also the findings are consistent that suggesting the strength of the results. This confirms the potential direct role of tech- nology adoption on market participation among rural house- holds, as higher productivity from improved technology in- terprets into higher output market integration (Asfaw, Shiferaw, Simtowe, & Hagos, 2011). Regarding with the family income, off-farm income gen- erates more revenue than non-farm and on-farm. Farm house- holds rely upon income from each off-farm and non-farm activities. Consequently, for several farm households, eco- nomic decisions (including technology adoption and differ- ent production decisions) are probable to be formed by the allocation of time among such activities. Whereas time allo- cation decisions are typically not measured directly, we tend to observe the outcomes of such decisions, like off-farm and non-farm income. (Fernandez-Cornejo, 2007) found that a farm operator’s off-farm employment and off-farm income vary reciprocally with the scale of the farm. Operators of smaller farm operations, improve their economic performance by compensating for the scale disadvantages of their farm business with more off-farm involvement. Off-farm work re- duces farm-level technical efficiency, however, can increase household-level technical efficiency. Adoption of agricultural innovations that save management time is expounded to higher off-farm income. This finding also proved that the household income of rice grower has not, however, met all the needs of house- holds in order that they look for other sources of income outside of farming, such as labor, fishing, merchants, trans- port suppliers, industrial household or alternative work that’s unskilled job (Nasir, Mulyana, & Yunita, 2015). Those find- ings have been strengthened by the characteristics of land tenure, productivity, and the revenue of rice farmers per sea- son that are presented in table 3. TABLE 3. LAND TENURE, PRODUCTIVITY, REVENUE OF RICE FARMING Land Tenure (Ha) Freq. % <0.25 9 3.33 0.25 – < 0.50 17 6.30 0.50 – < 1.00 67 24.81 1.00 – < 1.25 90 33.33 1.25 – < 1.50 6 2.22 1.50 – <1.75 20 7.41 1.75 – < 2.00 0 0.00 2.00 – < 2.25 42 15.56 ≥ 2.25 19 7.04 Productivity (Kg/Ha) < 500 kg/ha 4 1.48 500 – < 1,250 47 17.41 1,250 – < 2,000 40 14.81 2,000 – < 2,750 40 14.81 2,750 – < 3,500 20 7.41 3,500 – < 4,250 40 14.81 4,250 – < 5,000 3 1.11 5,000 – < 5,750 13 4.81 5,750 – < 6,500 9 3.33 ≥ 6,500 kg/ha 54 20.00 Revenue (Rp/Ha) < 1,500,000 0 0 1,500,000 – < 3,000,000 13 4.81 3,000,000 – < 4,500,000 16 5.93 4,500,000 – < 6,000,000 20 7.41 6,000,000 – < 7,500,000 24 8.89 7,500,000 – < 9,000,000 27 10.00 9,000,000 – < 10,500,000 23 8.52 10,500,000 – < 12,000,000 20 7.41 12,000,000 – < 13,500,000 17 6.30 13,500,000 – < 15,000,000 17 6.30 ≥ 15,000,000 93 34.44 On land tenure, mostly rice grower only had 0.25–less than 1.25 ha (58.14%) and this finding proved that the land owned is limited not only in Java but also outside Java, par- ticularly in West Kalimantan (Table 3). These conditions had an impact on the society in the region. Land ownership is not only important for agriculture, but also for varying needs in society. The land serves as a productive asset and com- modity that could be traded. The shrinkage problems of pro- ductive land for farming generally due to rampant conver- sion of agricultural land to non-agricultural (Suhartanto, 2009). (Winarso, 2012) also stated that the shrinkage of land tenure occurs in all types of rice field land because of some reasons. First, the transaction of sale and buy of land; sec- ond, the distribution of inheritance or grants which had re- 89 Vol.3 No.2 Juli 2017 sulted in the marginalization of land ownership and small farmers tend to sell their land because of the income earned from the land does not meet the needs of the household; third, land conversion. While, on rice productivity, only 20% of rice grower could make over 6.5 ton/ha and mostly rice farmers (80%) got less than it. Land tenure were proved have a positive significant relationship with the value of rice production, rice produc- tivity, and the technical efficiency (Koirala, Mishra, & Mohanty, 2014); (Shaikh, Hongbing, Khan, & Ahmed, 2016). (Koirala, Mishra, & Mohanty,2014) also stated that yield improvement is governed mainly in two ways; either shifting the yield frontier or by developing and promoting yield-en- hancing technologies. Improving rice productivity can give to higher yield and in reducing poverty, especially in rural areas, increased productivity may also help in increasing the income and food security of small farmers, who depend on rice production for a living. Land tenure would also affect the household income levels and show that the Gini index in some villages had great value (Cervantes-Godoy, & Dewbre, 2010). The relationship between farm income and land ten- ure levels indicates that income distribution was affected by the strata of land ownership, the land owned will increase the income of households. Thus, the farmers households that have a large of land tenure, have a greater range of the non- agricultural sources (Winarso, 2012). This finding was proved by the ownership of highest income, 34.44% of rice farmers had more than equal to 2.25 ha of land tenure. TABLE 4. THE DISTRIBUTION OF TECHNICAL EFFICIENCY LEVEL FOR RICE FARMING Tehnical Efficiency Rice Farming Freq. (%) 0% - 20% 0 0 > 20% - 30% 1 0.37 > 30% - 40% 3 1.11 > 40% - 50% 62 22.96 > 50% - 60% 75 27.78 > 60% - 70% 82 30.37 > 70% 47 17.41 Average 0.439 Maximum 0,779 Minimum 0,255 Furthermore, the distribution of technical efficiency for rice farmers farming are presented in table 4. Technical effi- ciency is concerned with producing goods and services with the optimal combination of inputs to produce maximum output for the minimum cost. To be technically efficient means the economy must be produced on its production possibility frontier. Technical efficiency is also closely related to the concept of productive Efficiency. This technical effi- ciency of rice farming was measured to assess the achieve- ment of the target application of technology to increase pro- duction and productivity or technical efficiency can explain the adoption rate of technology. Table 4 showed the distribution of technical potency level for rice farmers farming shown that only 17.41% rice grower who are able to accomplish sufficient; while over 60-70% technical efficiency achieved by 30.37% of rice farmers and the others less than the accomplishment of this technical efficiency. So, only a few of rice farmers were able to attain sufficient on farming in West Kalimantan. Average accom- plishment of technical efficiency was 43.9%, whereas mini- mum accomplishment of technical efficiency was 25.5% and 77.9% of maximum achievement of technical efficiency. This finding was signaled for the government to accelerate the adoption of technology for rice grower, even though the ap- pliance of technological innovation is determined by the fi- nancial ability or the rice farmers household that were occur- ring on all domestic food crop farmers already (Aji, Satria, & Hariono, 2014); (Sumarno, Harianto, & Kusnadi, 2015). Future improvements may be expected from continued innovations in both agronomic practices and genetic improve- ment, although current seed company business models are in question given rush to merge for all major seed firms, and appropriate business models have yet to be developed to re- quire full advantage of farmer-reported information on crop management, high resolution spatial information on soils and climate, as well as advances in computing power, remote sensing, communication technologies, and crop simulation models (Cassman, 2016). The characteristics that ensure an innovation’s rate of adoption are: relative advantage; compatibility; complexity; trialability; and observability to those people among the so- cial structure (Rogers, 2003). (Lasmini, Nurmalina, & Rifin, 2016) stated that the benefits of technology adoption can be done by presenting the figure of the progressive farmers who have higher technical efficiency characteristics than other farmers, grasp more regarding rice farming, respond posi- tively and had extension recommendation adopting best of rice farming. Therefore policies leading to raising the educa- tional level of the farmer, increasing their technical efficiency, guaranteeing greater access to microfinance, crop specific regional focusing and strengthening the extension services through a lot of intensive on-farm demonstrations might be useful to increasing technical efficiency and adoption of tech- nology. 90 AGRARIS: Journal of Agribusiness and Rural Development Research (Galero, & Tiongco, 2014) in their research also gave some recommendation related empirical findings, an urgent to extend and sustain investments in agriculture, particularly on research and development, infrastructures and smallholder productivity. Through these, there can be low cost irrigation and resource-efficient technologies, like integrated soil fertil- ity management using the combination of each fertilizer and manure or compost, particularly for the rainfed areas. There’s additionally a desire to enhance and depend upon human resource capability through education, coaching and exten- sion to boost investments further, the government should encourage non-public sector participation, particularly wher- ever market failure is clear. Next, the govt ought to improve access to the main agricultural inputs, such as fertilizers and seeds. These should be at a low price so that the farmers will afford them and for the distributors to urge back their prices and still earn profits. Lastly, the govt ought to overcome in- stitutional contraints. The government should also safeguard the right of the farmers particularly to their land. Furthermore, relating to risks of rice farming are given in table 5. Assessing risk at the farming levels helps rice farmers to understand risk, create better decisions and build risk mitigation scenarios. Risk assessments also cause accurate plans that are less likely to steer to budget overruns or delays. Cost commitments, revenue pipelines, and profit forecasts are going to be accurately stated for each level of risk. The sensitivity of the forecasts are going to be better understood. When informed by the risk assessment, the whole farming are going to be more profitable. Table 5 demonstrated the risk assessment of rice farming used the standards of coefficient of variance. If the coeffi- cient of variance value is over 0.5 then the rice farming risks borne by rice farmers was at the lower limit value, whereas if the constant of variance worth less than equal to 0.5 then the rice farmers continuously take the profit or break even at the lower limit value. These findings tested that the risk of production, prices, and financial gain on rice farming were low or the coefficient of variance value were less than 0.5 so rice farmers will take profit. These findings were contrary to the findings of (Suharyanto, Darwanto, & Widodo, 2015) that higher risk was occured in rice farming and it had been influenced principally by land tenure, organic fertilizers, and pesticides. Less of rice farmers able to attain the technical efficiency, productivity, profit and income in farming or to avoid risks as their expected as a result of several factors, which might be controlled (internal) or that can’t be con- trolled (external), and since of the intensity of the input and output price. TABLE 5. RISK ANALYSIS OF RICE FARMING Description Value Production: Average 3,314.9519 Standard deviation 12.629670 Lower limit 3,289.9519 The coefficient of variance 0.004000 Price: Average 4,597 Standard deviation 1.337824 Lower limit 4,594.3244 The coefficient of variance 0.000291 Income: Average 13,795,770 Standard deviation 844,163.146300 Lower limit 12,107,443.71 The coefficient of variance 0.061115 Thus, some methods can be taken that were based on the outline and abstract of empirical results. First, Ex-ante strat- egy that’s the strategy before the shock happens. It’s designed to anticipate when the shocks are coming so the farm isn’t within the prone position. Second, interactive strategy, the strategy is taken at the time of shocks by being relocated the resource so impact risks are often reduced. Third, ex-post strategy that’s strategy when the shock happens to reduce its impact. While, (Roy, Chan, & Xenarios, 2016) in their find- ings suggest that pluralistic (the government and non-gov- ernment) agricultural consultative services can serve as an engine of transition in rice production, sustainability during which a multi-year coming up with and strategy formulation is crucial besides investment in the modernization of exten- sion services. The sustainable farm Techniques also consistent with (Flynn, 2015), policy makers would like information on the situation of rice production and on improved technologies that are obtainable for sustainable intensification of rice pro- duction in order to formulate acceptable policies for sup- porting rice production. On the opposite hand, global rice production is endeavor issues like international global cli- mate change and also the insufficiency of water, land and energy resources. The issues and opportunities for a sustain- able increase of rice production differ from one rice ecosys- tem to a distinct due to the variations in environmental and socioeconomic conditions, degrees of intensification. There are existing improved and promising technologies that may be accustomed boost farmers’ production and to increase their incomes, whereas guaranteeing environmen- tal conservation, i.e. Genetic improvement, minimizing the effects of the scarcity of water, land, and labor resources, minimum and/or zero tillage, land levelling victimization laser beam, direct seeding in lowland rice production, motility and intermittent irrigation, aerobic rice or irrigated upland rice, 91 Vol.3 No.2 Juli 2017 and innovation in a traditional trade (Flynn, 2015). (Oxfam, 2014) ensured that smallholders and agro-ecological farmers are concerned in shaping policies and investments in agri- culture. 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