Farmer Capacity in Managing Enviromentally Friendly Paddy Farming in Central Sulawesi Indonesia
Keywords:
agriculture extension, agricultural, capacity of farmer, innovation level.Abstract
Efforts to increase the production of environmentally friendly farming can be well done by looking at various input, process, and output variables. Various input in farming activities, both internal and external factors included: characteristics of farmers, innovation, counseling level, supporting factors, and capacity of farmer should support each other. To run these efforts properly, a conduction of a review of the relationship between the various variables were needed. The research was conducted in Sigi and Parigi Moutong Districts, Central Sulawesi Province. Determination of research location is done purposively in the rice production centers area included district, sub-district, village and farmer group. Total responden was 174 farmers. The method of analysis used Rank Spearman correlation test, with data processing tool used Statistical Product and Service Solution (SPSS) software. The result showed that there was a significant and positive relationship between the characteristics of farmers with their capacity, asignificant and positive relationship between innovation level and capacity of farmer, asignificant and positive relationship between innovation conseling, and capacity of farmer, and a significant relationship between supporting factors with capacity of farmer.
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