Abstract
Indonesia is a country whose majority lives of agriculture and food crop agriculture remains the livelihoods of the majority of the Indonesian population. South Sumatera province is one that is a center for food crops, especially rice. A district that has irrigation and a rice production center in South Sumatera is Musi Rawas District. In 10 years (1993-2013) recorded a decrease in the number of rice farmers households is significant in Indonesia, including in South Sumatera. Changes in the amount of rice farming households in the province of South Sumatera by Agricultural Census 2013 indicates the state of declining, even in the central areas of food. This situation is further interesting to study the determinants of primary business of rice farmers to plant non-food and non-agriculture, especially in the central areas of food and irrigated in South Sumatera, Indonesia. This study used survey method and logistic regression for the analysis data. The result shows that factors affecting farmers’ decision to switch or not switch from the main businesses, namely rice farm to farm fish, rubber and non-agricultural businesses is land area, household income from rice, the income of non rice, grain price at farmers level, revenue from non paddy, costs of farming, commodity prices, employment opportunities outside of the main business, farming experience and knowledge of farmers on land conversion rules.
Highlights
Countries whose economic growth mostly from agricultural products such as Indonesia, in general, is trying to develop itself from a situation and the nature of traditional society with the state of the economy backward toward a state that is considered better, grow and into the broader economy advanced
Indonesia is a country whose majority lives of agriculture and food crop agriculture remains the livelihoods of the majority of the Indonesian population
2) Factors affecting the rice farmers household switched to non-food and non-agricultural in Musi Rawas District, South Sumatera, Indonesia
Summary
Countries whose economic growth mostly from agricultural products such as Indonesia, in general, is trying to develop itself from a situation and the nature of traditional society with the state of the economy backward toward a state that is considered better, grow and into the broader economy advanced. With the success of such development, gradually decrease the non-agricultural sector in contributing to national production and in providing employment (Suryadi, 2010). When compared with the situation 10 years earlier, the number of farming households in Indonesia decreased by 5.04 million households from 31.17 million in 2003 to 26.13 million households in 2013. This shows there has been a decline of farming households 1.75%
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