| dc.description.abstract | PERCEPTION OF FARMERS TO THE INNOVATION OF ORGANIC VEGETABLE
FARMING IN MERAPI ERUPTION REGION YOGYAKARTA INDONESIA
Lestari Rahayu *,1 Aris Slamet Widodo 2 and Achmad Fachruddin 3
1 Department of Agribusiness, Faculty of Agriculture
Muhammadiyah University of Yogyakarta
Jalan Lingkar Selatan, Kasihan, Bantul, Daerah Istimewa Yogyakarta 55183 Indonesia
Email: lestari_rahayu@yahoo.com*
lestari@umy.ac.id
The advantages of organic vegetables such as high prices, market certainty, and
support from farmer groups have not been a strong attraction for most conventional farmers
to move to adopt organic vegetable farming technology. The success of innovation in
vegetable farming is largely determined by farmers' perceptions of organic vegetable farming
innovations as farmers are an important part of the adoption and diffusion process of
innovation. This study purpose to (1) describe the characteristics of organic vegetable
farmers; (2) Studying perception of farmers toward organic farming innovation (3) to analyze
the relationship of farmer characteristics with farmer perception to organic farming innovation
The research used survey method. The population in the study were all farmers
located in Wukirsari Village, Cangkringan District, Sleman Regency. Sampling of farmers
using stratified random sampling, with stratification of adopter farmers and non adopter
farmers. Data analysis includes descriptive analysis, average scoring, and Spearman rank
correlation
The results of this reaserch show that younger farners have a wider area, and the
farmers who have higher income will choose an organic vegetables farming automatically.
innovation to organic vegetable farming was percepted by adopter-farmers as innovation
that given relative advantages, compability, complexity, to triability and observability.
Perception of non adopter-farmers to organic vegetable farming is not observable
Rank Spearman correlation result indicated that age adaptor-farmer had significant and
positive correlation with the perception of relative advantages complexity, and triability, but
farmer education has a negative correlation with relative advantage and compability. Land
area has positive correlation with triability Land area and income of non-adapter farmer have
positive correlation with perception of innovation which is compability
Characteristics of farmers, perception, innovation | en_US |
