PERILAKU PETANI KELAPA SAWIT DALAM PENGGUNAAN PUPUK KIMIA DI KECAMATAN SUNGAI BAHAR KABUPATEN MUARO JAMBI
Abstract
Palm Oil Managemet Behavior In Using Chemical Fertilizer In Sungai
Bahardistrict At Muaro Jambi Regency. Palm oil fruits as a mainstay commodity
in Sungai Bahar District which it gives a lot of benefits in that district. However,
there were the change of productivity of palm oil fruits such as there was no
significant increase in productivity of palm oil fruits because the farmers still used
chemical fertilizers, the behavior of the farmers in using chemical fertilizer, and
the correlation between the level of farmers knowledge and the behavior of the
farmers in using chemical fertilizers in descriptive analysis by using intervals and
spearman rank. The result showed that thee farmers had a good behavior with
score was 34,04. Besides, the knowledge of farmers in the use of chemical
fertilizers was they were lack of knowledge about using chemical fertilizer witch
the average score was 26,80. They knowledge were divided into the knowledge of
fertilizer content, the effect of fertilizer was categorized as know, the knowledge
of the dose of chemical fertilizers was categorized as unknown, the knowledge of
the use of fertilizer was categorized know, and there was no correlation between
farmers knowledge an the behavior of farmers ikn the use of chemical fertilizer in
Marga Mulya Village, Sungai Bahar District in Jambi Province.