Empowering farmers have an important aspect in realizing the independence of society. To accomplish this, it can be done through the capacity transformation for farmer groups (Gapoktan) as a forum to empower farmers in conducting agricultural activities. The purpose of this research is to change the capacitance for the rice farming community through the gapoktan empowerment program to increase rice yields. The method of research used is a qualitative method with a descriptive approach. Data collection techniques are observations, interviews, and documentation. Analysis of technical data, data reduction, data presentation, and concluding. The results showed that the process of empowerment of gapoktan program in Semangga District does not run optimally, can be seen in terms of government empowerment program that has not been implemented continuously, and the presence of PPL officers rarely find that making it difficult for rice farmers to consult when there are problems related to agriculture. This needs to be done transforming the capacity to improve the community’s ability to manage agricultural land. For the farmer group of gapoktan aspect of Semangga District that there are four programs created but in the process of implementation, not all programs are implemented in full including replanting program that is a program to support activities crops that can help increase farmer harvest but this program is not done by farmer groups. It shows no consistency in the implementation of the program created because what is programmed does not correspond to what is implemented and when viewed in terms of the planning of the existing program link between one program with another program.