TINGKAT PENERAPAN PETANI TERHADAP SISTEM PERTANIAN PADI ORGANIK DI KECAMATAN BENER, KABUPATEN PURWOREJO
Abstract
This research concerned on farmers’ application step on organic rice farming
system in the district of Bener, Purworejo. This research was conducted because
of the farmers’ disinterests towards the use of organic rice farming system, and
the farmers tend to apply conventional farming system. This research aims to find
out the farmers’ application step towards the organic rice farming system and to
find out the correlation which affected farmers’ application step towards the
organic rice farming system. The respondents included in this research were 184
respondents who were determined by census for organic farmers and simple
random sampling for conventional farmers. The result of this research showed
that the farmers’ application step had not reach the maximum score which at once
answered the problems of this research. The correlation happened between the
characteristic and the application step showed that age had negative correlation
and was not significant, level of education had positive correlation and was
significant, land area had positive correlation and was not significant, farming
experience had positive correlation and was significant.