Income and expenditure composition household poor maize farmers

This study aims to analyze the income and expenditure of low-income families of corn farmers and assess their proportion of income and expenditure. The study was conducted in Gorontalo Province in May - July 2018 using the survey method. The total number of respondents was 90 farmers with a multistage purposive sampling technique. The selection of poor farmer respondents based on the condition of the house where the corn farmers live. Data were analyzed descriptively quantitatively and using income and expenditure analysis. The results showed the income of poor households of Gorontalo Province's corn farmers every year is 14,413 million per year and expenditure of 20.34 million per year; 2) The composition of the income of poor households of corn farmers is 79.11% sourced from corn farming and the remaining 20.89% comes from outside corn farming, while the composition of expenditure is food consumption 56.01%, non-food consumption 22.09%, cigarette consumption 18.18% and use for energy 3.72 %.