STRUKTUR PENDAPATAN RUMAH TANGGA PETANI PADI SAWAH SKALA KECIL DI KELURAHAN BINUANG KAMPUNG DALAM KECAMATAN PAUH KOTA PADANG

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Impairment Basic Farmer or agricultural production, especially paddy and scale
farming with small land holding farmers' income resulted primarily from commodity paddy
rice into decline and insufficient to meet the needs of the family. Thus the farmer
households will seek other than rice commodity businesses or businesses from outside the
agricultural sector to supplement household income. This is the main focus of this study.
The research was conducted in the Village Binuang Kampung Padang Pauh In
District of which is sub urban or suburban. This study is a survey research method used is
descriptive quantitative. Respondents in this study were farmers with an area of 0.5 ha
land holding down. The results showed that the analysis of the results of the calculations
showed that farming paddy crop production is still far from enough and have not been able
to meet the needs of farm households.Where the average penghasilan farmers from
farming rice per month ranging from Rp 200,000, - up to Rp 1.800.000, -. Therefore
farmers in the study area are looking for alternative business venture beyond rice crops to
supplement household income.
In terms of the age dependency ratio is known that respondents with low
population dependency ratio even more to make efforts to increase household income
apart from paddy farming activities. Meanwhile, if viewed from the aspect of land density
level to the highest percentage of respondents who do all of the activities or businesses are
household respondent farmers with land density levels are relatively small and the number
of family members that much.
Keywords: Household Income Structure Farmer, Rice, Non Agricultural Sector