Risk Analysis of Rice Farming in Alue Merbau Village, East Langsa Sub-District, Langsa City

Abstract

Rice is the main agricultural commodity in Langsa City which participates in efforts to support government programs, namely special efforts for soybean corn rice. However, a decrease in farm productivity will be a risk in farming. This research was aimed to determine the risk to farmers prices, production and income of rice farming in Alue Merbau village, East Langsa sub-district, Langsa. The research was designed as descriptive and analytical research. The sampling farmers was selected by using simple random sampling and structural review. The method if this research used coefficient variance as analytical tools in this research. The result showed that coefficient of variation of cost risk was low, meanwhile income and production risk were high. It's indicate that the rice farming was unefficient and the farmers never record all the expense.