Abstract:
The rubber plant (Hevea bransiliensis) is one of the plants that has a high enough economic value so that it can meet the living needs of most Indonesian people, but a virus was detected from Wuhan, China which then entered Indonesia in March 2020, which was identified as Covid-19. Pandemi of Covid-19 has an impact on various sectors in Indonesia, one of them is the economic sector. Ambawang village was the first village detected the Covid-19 virus in Tanah Laut Regency, thus causing little impact on the village. The purpose of this study is to compare farmers' income from rubber productivity before and during the Covid-19 pandemic. The method used is proportional stratified random sampling it uses 3 classes in the study and obtained a total sample of 165 as respondents. Data analysis used a statistical approach, namely the paired T-test. The results of this study indicate the average cost of each class in Ambawang village, namely for class 1 the average cost of rubber farmers is Rp.619,952, for class 2, which is Rp.1,275,124, while for class 3, it is Rp.4,356,986. Of the three classes in this study, after a parametric test using the Paired T-test showed that the Covid-19 pandemic has a significated impact on the income of rubber farmers
