Analysis of the Adoption Rate of Lowland Rice Technology in Bolaang Mongondow Regency, North Sulawesi Province

Abstract

Farming technology will be successful if farmers adopt it correctly. The research aims to determine the level of farmers’ adoption of lowland rice farming technology. The research location was in Bolaang Mongondow Regency in October 2022, using a survey technique of 30 lowland rice farmers. Adoption data were analyzed descriptively and Spearman’s correlation statistic test. The results of the correlation test showed that there was a negative relationship between the adoption of technology components and age and education, but was positive for farming experience, land area, innovation characteristics. The information channel correlation is not significantly related at the level of α = 0.05 with the technology component adopted, this means that there are many information channels that can be utilized but farmers do not directly apply the technology obtained. Meanwhile, the adoption of lowland rice technology components, namely harvest handling - post-harvest, was 96.67%, the use of NSV and intermittent irrigation was 90% each, and other technological components were below 80%. The government has an important role in introducing technological innovations by adjusting the level of needs and whereabouts of farmers to technological components so that they can be adopted for the expected increase in productivity.