Copyright © 2018 Authors. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. International Journal of Engineering & Technology, 7 (2.29) (2018) 469-475 International Journal of Engineering & Technology Website: www.sciencepubco.com/index.php/IJET Research paper Economic Evaluation of Landscape Integrated Pest Management Programs in Banyumas Regency, Central Java, Indonesia Hani Perwitasari * , Irham , Slamet Hartono , Suhatmini Hardyastuti Department Of Agricultural Socio-Economics,, Universitas Gadjah Mada, Yogyakarta, Indonesia *Corresponding Author E-Mail: Hani.Perwita@Ugm.Ac.Id Abstract The massive use of chemicals in food production process has adversely affected the aspect of cost, ecology and health in particular. Landscape Integrated Pest Management (LIPM) Program is one of the technology applications targeted to minimize the chemicals. In Indonesia, there were only 6 regencies which applied LIPM, which included Banyumas regency. This study primarily aims at comparing production costs, productivity, revenue, profit and financial feasibility between LIPM and non-LIPM rice farms. The researchers collected primary and secondary data during the investigation. They purposively chose Pliken Village as the research object as it is the only village implementing LIPM. Meanwhile, sample was selected by random sampling methods involving LIPM and non- LIPM farmers with 30 respondents for each. Independent-samples T test was exerted to compare productivity, revenue, cost, profit and financial feasibility. The results indicate that productivity, revenue, profit and financial feasibility farming with LIPM were higher than the non-LIPM farming. Moreover, the production cost in the LIPM farming was lower than the production cost of the non-LIPM farming. The independent T-test pinpoints that the total revenue indicator and profit were significant. In other words, it may become reference to encourage farmers to apply Landscape Integrated Pest Management Program for sustainable agriculture . Keywords: Economic evaluation, LIPM, banyumas 1. Introduction In agriculture, one of the most common problems is pests which may disrupt the plants’ growth and lead to a dwindling down plan- tation’s productivity. To overcome that pestering pest problem, farmers have attempted several strategies to eradicate the plant rav- aging pests. The most widely used measurement to control the pests is using chemicals. However, massive use of chemicals in the pro- duction process is proven to trigger adverse impacts in some aspects. In addition, in terms of cost, pesticide usage raises the farmers’ out- lay which means a decreasing profit of their sold agricultural prod- ucts. In the matter of ecology, using pesticide might cause land deg- radation which eventually will affect the agricultural crops. In the matter of health, the remnant of chemical substances being left in the products passed down from the farmers and consumers might be poisoning human’s health. The negative effects brought by the massive usage of pesticide pinpoints a disconcerting fact that healthy foods production system has not been established yet. (1) did some researches on “Pengelolaan Hama Terpadu Skala Luas (PHTSL) / Landscape Integrated Pest Management” in several re- gions of Java Island. The implemented PHTSL made a good use of refugee flowers as an alternative in agricultural pest control. Bou- gainvillea, Four O’Clock Flower (Mirabilis Jalapa), sunflower (He- lianthus Annuus L.), and Yellow Alder (Turnera Ulmifolia) are kinds of flowers attracting their natural enemy insects. On the basis of the research, it is well proven that planting refugee flowers has been significantly effective on cutting down the use of pesticide and boosting the agricultural productivity. Pliken Village is one of PHTSL’s study objects that use refugee flowers as studied by FAO. Pliken Village is one of the villages situated in Kembaran, Banyumas. The area is a potentially promis- ing for agricultural field with farming as their dominating bread and butter. It is noteworthy that rice production in Pliken Village’s in one time of harvest amounted to 6.5 up to 7 tons per hectare. Farm- ers have applied cropping pattern for paddy-paddy-palawija. The most commonly planted rice varieties in Pliken Village is me- kongga, situ bagendit, and IR-64. While for palawija (non-rice low water consuming crops), corn and soybeans are the most popularly cultivated. To water the plantations in Pliken Village most of farm- ers apply technical, semi technical, and non-technical irrigations. For now, there are three farming groups out of five involved as the research object in Pliken Village. Although the remaining two groups were not involved as research objects, the knowledge col- lected from the three farming guided groups is disseminated to the other two farming groups. The knowledge-dissemination activity as conducted by fellow farmers in one village enhances the possibility to develop Pliken Village as a tourist village or transplant nursery center. For that, eco-friendly pest eradication using refugee flowers could be applied and developed in Pliken Village in order to expand the area’s farming sector. However, there are still quite some num- bers of farmers of Pliken Village that count on chemical substances- based pest control weapons such as pesticide to eradicate the pests, especially rice. Besides relying on chemicals for pest control, there are also countless farmers of the village using chemicals as the fer- tilizers. So, in order to reduce the use of chemicals for rice farming in Pliken Village, a study of economical evaluation of Integrated Pest Management Landscape application in the village is necessary to inspire other chemical user farmers.