RESPON PETANI TERHADAP PENGGUNAAN BENIH PADI BERSUBSIDI DI DESA SEKARPUTIH, KECAMATAN WIDODAREN, KABUPATEN NGAWI
Abstract
Farming is the livelihood of most of Indonesia's population. Especially those who
live in rural areas, who still have fertile land that is suitable for planting various
kinds of food plants. In effort to increase the production the Government provides
rice seed subsidies so that farmers get the facilities and subsidize the price of rice
seeds. Although the government has provided rice seed subsidies, not all farmers
use these facilities. Most still use non-subsidized seeds. This research aimed to
know the characteristics of subsidized rice farmers toward the response of
farmers who use subsidized rice seeds and also to know the influence factors of
farmers response toward subsidized rice seeds. The basic method used in this
research was desktiptif with survey method. Research result showed that as many
32 farmers (66,67%) were 47 – 62 years used subsidized rice seeds, as many 47
farmers (97,92%) used non-subsidized rice seeds. The majority of the land area of
farmers who used non-subsidized seeds was 1,250 - 14,166 m2 as much 58.33%,
there were 45 farmers (93.75%) non-subsidized seed users, 5 farmers (51.67%)
subsidized seed users have elementary education. There are 26 farmers (54.17%)
who used non-subsidized seed and 9 (75.0%) subsidized seed users have family
member among of 2-3 people. The response of farmer's attitude towards the use of
subsidized rice seeds had an average score of 3.18 which was included in the
Fairly Good category, while the factors that influence farmers' response toward
subsidized rice seed was the land owned by farmers which proven by the
acquisition of P Value of 0.014 <0, 05. So it can be concluded that the experience
of using subsidized rice seeds and land area are the factors that influenced the
farmers who using subsidized and non-subsidized rice seeds.