Respon Petani Terhadap Penggunaan Pupuk Organik Pada Usaha Tani Padi Di Kabupaten Bantul

Supriyati

ABSTRACT

This study is purposed to investigate farmer’s response towards the use of organic fertilizer, factors influencing farmer’s response towards the use of organic fertilizer, and the difference of productivity and income rate between using organic and non-organic fertilizers for rice cultivation.

The resut of research shows that productivity rate of organic rice per hectare is 3.373,60 kg and non organic rice 2.719,67 kg. Organic farmer’s income per hectare is Rp. 14,.894,788 and non-organic farmer is Rp. 6,325,.333. Based on t-test, productivity and income rate of organic rice is significantly higher than non-organic rice cultivation. Adoption rate of farmer towards organic farming technology achieves 90,51%. Likewise, the application of each technology element is high too, which starts from the lowest of post-harvest time (78,33%) to the highest one on irrigation technology (100%). Based on proportion test, it can be seen that farmer response is high towards the use of organic fertilizer. Accorded to Chi-square test, there is result obtained i.e. factors influencing adoption rate of organic fertilizer use such age and farmer’s experience.

Key words : Response, organic, productivity, income.