| Summary: | The purposes of this study is at analyzing the impact of maize import tariff policy changes
on production and consumption in Indonesia. Three groups of households were assessed in
this studi, namely: (1) large scale broiler farming, (2) small scale broiler farming, and (3)
other households. Employed data in this study were classified into 3 types: (1) production
and input, consumption, and household income, (2) inputs and outputs, and (3) elasticities.
The abolishment of the import tariff policy on maize had an impact on increased maize
imported and decreased maize price. Decreased domestic maize price was responded by
maize farmer through lessing maize planted area and fertilizer input uses that had impact on
the declining in maize production. On the other hand, this policy had positive impact on
production of rice, chicken meat, and eggs which led to increase incomes of small scale
broiler farming and agricultural sector, as well as national. It furthermore increased the
consumption for maize, chicken meat, and eggs in Indonesia.
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