EFFICIENCY ANALYSIS OF SHALLOT FARMING IN SERDANG BEDAGAI DISTRICT
Shallot is one of the essential ingredients for cooking in Indonesia. The price of shallot itself fluctuates. The fluctuates of the price randomly make the policy that enhances the farmer to exchange their plant for the shallot in some places. This study aims to determine the factors that influence economics, technics, and allocative efficiency. This research has been done in Serdang Bedagai District with the total sample was 60 farmers and used Stochastic Frontier Analysis with MLE with Log-Likelihood to analuze the efficiency. The result show that the shallots farming was efficient, it can be showed from the efficiency value more than 70 percent and the variable effected the inefficient was the participation in farmers group. In order to get more efficient in shallots farming the government have to push the farmers join the farmers group so they will get the newest information about the good agriculture practice and government aid such as fertilizer, machine and seeds.
Shallots, Frontier, Efficiency