Sustainability analysis for rice and duck farming in swampy land, Hulu Sungai Utara Regency, South Kalimantan

In Hulu Sungai Utara Regency, the increasing of the potential of swampy land utilization through rice and duck farming needs to be developed towards the sustainable agriculture. This study aims to analyze the sustainability index of rice farming and duck poultry using the Sustainability Index approach of Lebak in Sungai Durait Hulu Village, Regency of Hulu Sungai Utara. Measurement of sustainability index includes six dimensions namely environment, economy, human resources, social, technology and institutions. The results showed that the sustainability index of rice and duck farming was about 47.54%, indicating rice and duck farming was less sustainable. The highest value of sustainability index was the social dimension, while other dimensions were included in the less sustainable category. The dimensions that has less sustainable need to be improved that could be focused on the leverage attributes which are land fertility and livestock raising system in ecological dimension, availability of livestock and product market and marketing of livestock product in economic dimension, ability to manage farming in the family and availability of family human resource in human resource dimension, agricultural waste treatment technology and feed supplement for livestock in technology dimension as well as the institution of output in institutional dimension.