Abstract:
This research aims to know the level of farmers' knowledge about multifunction of paddy field,
to know the willingness of farmers to retain the ownership of paddy fields, to identify the factors
that affect farmers' knowledge about multifunction of paddy field and the willingness of farmers
to maintain paddy fields also to know the effect of it. This research is a survey and the number of
samples is done proportionally, while making respondents conducted randomly. This research
used the analysis of frequencies tables, ordinal regression analysis, and a simple linear regression
analysis. The results showed that the level of farmer knowledge is moderate. The level of
farmers' willing to maintain the ownership of paddy field is moderate. The factors that affect the
level of farmers 'knowledge about multifunction of paddy field is farmers' income, frequency of
agricultural extension, education, farmers main reason for farming, and participation in farmer
groups. The factor that influence the willingness of farmers to maintain the ownership were age,
education, paddy field distance, frequency of farmers to follow agricultural extension, and
participation in a group of farmers. The influence of farmers' knowledge about multifunction of
paddy field toward farmers willing to maintain the ownership of fields is low. |
