Economic Efficiency and Scale of Rice Production in Bogor District Yunus Arifien 1 Sari Anggaawati 1 and Iis Anisa Yulia 1 1 Nusa Bangsa University Email: yunus@unb.ac.id ABSTRACT Setting cropping patterns in the use of paddy fields is one of the important steps that determine the income, use and distribution of farmer's labor. This research is a descriptive research which is carried out by utilizing secondary production data, cost analysis in Bogor Regency. Analysis using regression equations, scale of business and economic efficiency by determining the area of rice fields and farmer's labor with other production factors. the added value of the regression coefficient of the production factors is 0.84 < 1. This indicates that rice farming in Bogor Regency follows the rule of Reduction to scale, which means that the addition of production factors exceeds the proportion of additional production yields. Therefore, it must reduce the average farming costs so as to increase profits. The results of the analysis of the economic efficiency of farming that the comparison value between the value of the marginal product and the price of each production factor is 0.83 for the land area production factor, 0.28 for the labor production factor, 20,98 for urea fertilizer, and 4.36 for KCl fertilizer which has more value from 1 is already efficient. Keywords: lowland rice, farming, production factors, business scale, and economic efficiency 1. INTRODUCTION 1.1. Background Population development accompanied by human efforts to improve their welfare often results in the worsening of the carrying capacity of the region, which is often exacerbated by the existence of increasingly sharp land use conflicts. Land resources are becoming increasingly important along with the increasing population at a high rate and as a result of the development of economic activities. This situation brings the consequence that the demand for land for various purposes is increasingly diverse, such as for the expansion of agricultural land, production forest plantations, settlements/housing, mining as well as for locations for trade/business and industrial activities as well as infrastructure development needs (roads, irrigation, and land use) other public infrastructure. Land use is a form of farmers' efforts to utilize their land, namely managing land by determining and regulating plant types according to a certain area and turn so that optimal results can be obtained for certain purposes [1]. Along with increasing population growth, the demand for food, especially rice staple food, also increases. One of the efforts that can be done to meet this demand is by farming rice commodities. The development of rice production in Indonesia during the 2007-2012 period showed a positive growth trend, increasing from 57,157 million tons of GKG in 2007 to 68.956 million tons of GKG in 2012, or grew by an average of 3.86 percent every year and in 2012 it reached 3.86 percent highest production rate. The achievement of rice production in 2012 was caused by an average productivity increase of 2.79 percent (1.39 ku/ha) from 49.80 ku/ha in 2011 to 51.19 ku/ha in 2012, as well as an increase in harvested area of 2 .03 percent (268,010 ha) from 13,204 million ha in 2011 to 13,472 million ha in 2012 [2]. West Java Province is one of the national food buffer provinces which is one of the centers of rice production. Therefore, rice farming activities in West Java Province are dominated by rice farming, with lowland rice production in 2013 amounting to 11.54 million tons. Supplier of national food crops with a national rice contribution of 15% with a harvested area of 1.90 million hectares. Advances in Biological Sciences Research, volume 19 Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Smart and Innovative Agriculture (ICoSIA 2021) Copyright © 2022 The Authors. Published by Atlantis Press International B.V. This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC 4.0 license -http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/. 266