3 Revenue cost analysis is a method of comparing alternative by analyzing the
monetary income that each alternative would generate in relation to its cost. It means that crops that have high revenue cost ratio, will give the high return.
1.2. Statement of the problem
Bantul regency in Yogyakarta province was area which had the wide agricultural areas, so it could be said that Bantul Regency was one of food
producer area, especially for fulfilling the food demand in Yogyakarta province. According to the data from Dinas Pertanian Bantul Bantul Agricultural Office,
in Bantul Regency there were five kinds of crop that became superior commodities. Those crops were corn, rice, mungbean, peanut, and soybean. The
superior commodities mean the crops that had the high yield compared with other crops which were planted in Bantul Regency areas.
And as the area which located near the central of Yogyakarta province capitol and tourism area of Yogyakarta city, Bantul regency which one of the food
source in Yogyakarta, has undergone rapidly tremendous economic growth during last few years. This condition caused the decreasing of agricultural areas to
industrialized, tourism and settlement areas. Therefore to maintain the sustainable agriculture sector and to increase the
farming community income in Bantul regency, its need the exact agricultural operation by selecting the proper crop and land. Selecting proper crops means to
select the crop which would gave the highest income compared other crops; and proper land means to plant the crop on the suitable area for certain crops.
4 For getting the proper crop and land on agriculture operation, it is needed
the analyzing of land suitability and revenue cost for each superior crop.
1.3. Scope of Research
This study intended to integrate together remote sensing and GIS to investigated the land suitability of superior commodity in Bantul Regency. The
criteria of land suitability which used in this research were based on Land Suitability Criteria which was published by Center for Soil and Agro Climate
Research Puslittanak Bogor. The investigated areas were not on all of Bantul Regency, but only on the
areas which from image classification were classified as areas that could be operated as crop fields like rice field, dry land, grass and rice dependent of rain
filed. In this research the revenue cost analysis was applied to monoculture
practice of agriculture operation.
1.4. Objectives
