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AbstrakKomoditas padi merupakan sub sektor pertanian yang dominan di Kecamatan Pati.Suatu kegiatan yang berhubungan dengan pertanian terhadap pihak-pihak yangberperan di dalamnya baik proses produksi dan distribusinya. Dalam upaya mem-persempit disparitas harga padi di tingkat petani dan konsumen di Kecamatan Pati,maka diperlukan studi mengenai sistem pemasaran komoditas padi sawah. Datadianalisis secara deskriptif terhadap pola distribusi dan margin pemasaran padisawah. Hasil penelitian yaitu di Kecamatan Pati terdapat tiga pola distribusi, yaitupola distribusi pertama, Dari petani ke pedagang tengkulak ke penggilingan padike pedagang pengepul ke pedagang pengecer ke konsumen; kedua, Dari petani kepedagang tengkulak ke penggilingan padi ke pedagang pengecer ke konsumen; keti-ga, Dari petani ke penggilingan padi ke pedagang pengepul ke pedagang pengecerke konsumen. Margin pemasaran tertinggi pada varietas padi dominan tertinggiterjadi pada penggilingan padi sebesar 44,4 persen, kemudian pedagang tengkulak7,5 persen, pedagang pengepul 3.6 persen, dan pedagang pengecer 3,4 persen darikeseluruhan nilai marjin pemasaran padi sawah.AbstractCommodities of rice is the dominant agricultural sector in starch. An agriculture-related activities of theparties involved in it both the production process and its distribution. In an effort to narrow the dispa-rity in the level of prices of rice farmers and consumers in the starch, then required a study of the ricecommodity marketing systems. The Data analyzed are descriptive of the pattern and distribution of themarketing margins of rice paddy fields. Results of the study are in district there are three distribution pat-tern of Starch, which is the first distribution patterns, from farmers to rice broker dealers to the merchantpengepul mill to retailers to consumers; Second, from the farmer to the middleman to rice milling tradersto retailers to consumers; third, from the farmer to the milling of rice to traders pengepul to retailers toconsumers. The highest marketing Margin on highest dominant rice varieties occur in rice milling of44,4%, then a merchant middleman trader pengepul 7.5 percent, 3.6 percent and 3.4 percent of retailersoverall marketing margin value of rice paddy fields.