Abstract:
The duration of harvesting of beef cattle making farmers difficult for them who are still live under the poverty line to make this business as a sole livelihood. Therefore, the application of self-sufficiency program of meat on the people farm level must be a complete package that contains not only cattle, but also a package of farming multi business. The purpose of this study was to establish economic scale of agriculture and livestock farmers who are member of Sejahtera cooperative using analysis of the break even point in Kebar District of West Papua Province. Data were obtained from 20 household farmers who are member of Sejahtera cooperative in Kebar District. Variables measured consisted of fixed costs, variable costs, productivity of land, and the price of sale of agricultural and livestock products. Data were processed as descriptive using break event point calculation and tabulation. The results showed that to get the break even point of peanuts, corn, mustard, cucumbers, tomatoes, broccoli and native chicken business as much as 1.25, 3, 25, 30, 20, 15 tons and 28.62 head, it must be applied on each land area of 0.3307, 0.5888, 0.3188, 0.2126, 3184 and 0.003 ha. In order to household farmers can get benefit, then they have to produce over the break event point.
