Faktor-Faktor yang Mempengaruhi Sikap Petani Padi Sawah terhadap Penerapan Pertanian Organik
Abstract
Organic farming is one of the alternative solutions for environmental damage due to the use of synthetic materials input. Therefore, the objective of the study is to describe ricefield farmers attitude, to analyze attitudinal differences between non, semi, and organik ricefield farmers, to analyze the influencing factors on ricefield farmers attitude toward the implementation of organic farming. The study was conducted by survey methods on April 2013 in Magelang Subregency. 105 respondets was selected through sensus sampling and snowball sampling technique. The results shows that the ricefield farmers in Magelang Subregency are tends to have positive attitude towards the implementation of organic farming. Also, there is attitudinal differences among farmers. Non formal education, farming ecperience, capital ownership, acces to agricultural input material, and the values of the group has effect on the ricefield farmers attitude.