Impacts of Climate Change on Productivity and Efficiency Paddy Farms: Empirical Evidence on Tidal Swamp Land South Kalimantan Province – Indonesia

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to evaluate the impact of climate change on productivity and technical efficiencypaddy farms in tidal swamp land. The analysis showed Impact on productivity have not good because negative.Technical efficiency analysis uses frontier production function. The analysis showed the farmers in tidal swampland have good efficiency, with an average of 78%. The local paddy varieties production in tidal swamp lands,positively and significantly, affected by land use, fertilizer; labor and climate. The number of seeds had nosignificant effect. Production factor that found significantly influence the farmers technical efficiency iseducation. Age and farm business experience had no real effect.

Keywords: Tidal Swamp Land, Paddy Farms, Productivity, and Technical Efficiency