The Significance Analysis of the Economic Decision of Farmer Family against the Integration of Wetland Paddy- Duck Farming System in Langowan, Minahasa North Sulawesi, Indonesia

Abstract

Wetland Paddy and Duck farming system is a form of socio and economics available in Langowan farmers activities to earn both productions as done by their ancestors to live their life and family, paddy and duck as farming system, done in three ways of activities, namely, first, farmers of wetland paddy to product paddy, in four times a year because of the advantage of searching, whereas long time ago they just product it in two times a year. Second, the ducks product eggs counted in three months production, farmers who raise ducks to get their eggs everyday depend on how many ducks they raise. As the villages product duck for Minahasa and Manado market, they were called centra duck productions in Minahasa and Manado. Third, farmers who product both Paddy and Egg duck. They earn twofold, paddy and duck eggs also duck for food. There are two kinds of duck raising namely Anasmocha known in the research location as Bebek Java or itik and Pladyrynchos, known as Bebek Manila or entok. The objective of the study is to see the significance of economics decision of the farmer family done by the head of the family to earn their earnings and outsidegoing costs in the family so, they can afford, first, to earn incoming earning from ducks, and second, to earn incoming earnings from both paddy and ducks, third, to earn incoming earning from paddy, to overcome their all outsidegoing costs.

There are seventy five respondents. The 25 farmers raising duck according to the earning after minus the cost of inputs for three months showed the total of IDR 2754720491,- The 13 farmers adopt the integration of paddy-duck according to the earning after minus the cost of inputs for three months showed the total of IDR 2309160492,- ; whereas, the 49 farmers activity in wetland paddy according to the earning after minus the cost of inputs for three months showed the total of IDR1158592100,-.

Keywords : Oryza-Sativa L., Anasmocha, Pladyrynchos, Farmer Decision, Adoptions, measurement and micro saving.