In Pamatang Silimahuta District, most of the people do orange farming. Facts in the field show that there are two types of citrus farming, namely agrotourism and non-agrotourism citrus farming. Agrotourism citrus farming applies a concept, where visitors can pick directly from the trees at a predetermined price and higher than sold directly to agents. This certainly causes the difference in profits between agrotourism and non-agrotourism citrus farming. This study aims to analyze the amount of profit of agrotourism and non-agrotourism citrus farming and analyze the significant profit difference between agrotourism and non-agrotourism citrus farming in Pamatang Silimahuta District. Sampling in this study used purposive and census methods with a total sample of 46 respondents. The types of data used in this study are primary data and secondary data. Data analysis in this study used a difference test of two free samples (Mann-Whitney test). The results showed that the significance value (0.000) < α (0.05), meaning that there is a significant difference between the average profit of agrotourism and non-agrotourism citrus farming. The results of data analysis show that the average profit of agrotourism farming is greater than non-agrotourism farming.
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