ADOPTION OF TECHNOLOGY OF ORGANICS VEGETABLES CULTIVATION BY FARMERS IN THE AREA OF MOUNT MERAPI ERUPTION 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* ABASTRACT Vegetables are one of the types of commodities while the much-cultivated by farmers in the area of the slopes of Mount merapi. Mount merapi's eruptions resulted in the large number of damaged land so is impacting productivity decreased organic vegetables. The Government is encouraging farmers to cultivate organic vegetables with cultivation technology in the form of adopting Standard Operational Procedure (SOP) The farmers who conducted organic farming have to adopt various organic cultivating aspects in order to reach organic harvest. The purpose of this research are to identify characteristics of farmers, to analyze farmer’s application rate of the technology of organic vegetables cultivation, and to analyze about correlation between characteristics and adoption rate. The methods used in this research is descriptive analysis method and analysis of rank spearman The results show that the average of farmers’s age is 45 years old.. Average field area is in 3.666 m². Farming experience has an average in 11 years. Partner duration has a younger in 2-3 years and the older has 8 years partnership. 90% farmers make this onfarm as a priority, and then the field status 11 farmers are the owner his field and 4 farmers have a rent status, the nearest farmers are in 3 Km meanwhile the fartest is in 62 Km. Farmer’s adoption rate is very high, 88.1 percent of farmer adopted the technology as recommended by Standart Operational Procedure (SOP). The relationship between the characteristics and the adoption rate is interpreted through the correlation coefficient, it was found that the relationship with the characteristics of the low adoption rate Keywords: adoption, cultivation, farmer’s characteristics, organic vegetable