Rice Farmers’ Perception And Attitude Toward Organic Farming Adoption

Ashari, nFN; Sharifuddin, Juwaidah; Mohammed, Zainal Abidin; Terano, Rika

doi:10.21082/jae.v34n1.2016.35-46

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“…The environmental concern is identified as the most important factor for organic farmers. This finding is also is accordance with study of Ashari et al (2016) that revealed the environmental concern has positive impact toward farmer's attitude on organic farming. The better attitude; in turn, positively affect for famer' intention to adopt organic farming.…”

Section: Environmental and Health Concernssupporting

confidence: 92%

Factors Determining Organic Farming Adoption: International Research Results and Lessons Learned for Indonesia

Ashari¹,

Sharifuddin²,

Abidin³

2018

forum penelit. agro ekon.

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Indonesia is potential to develop organic farming as it has suitable land and supporting technology. Demand for organic product is supposed to increase in the future due to people’s awareness about safety and healthy food. It implies that organic farming has a good prospect to develop as agriculture-base business. However, it seems that farmers’ response to adopt organic farming technology is very low indicated by low rate of adoption. Actually, many countries have experiences in term of organic farming. This paper aims to assess determinant factors of organic farming adoption based on international research experiences and to withdraw lessons learned to raise adoption rate in Indonesia. The results showed that the determinant factors of organic farming adoption consisted of various aspects, i.e. (1) information and knowledge availability, (2) economic and financial motives, (3) technical and management skills, (4) social consideration, (5) environmental concern, (6) institutional environment, and (7) farmers’ socio-economic and demographic background. Accordingly, those aspects should be taken into account in policy formulation to encourage organic farming adoption. Indeed, government’s role is very crucial, mainly to convince farmers about organic farming benefit and to provide information as well as technical assistance. AbstrakIndonesia memiliki potensi besar untuk mengembangkan pertanian organik karena tersedia lahan dan teknologi pendukungnya. Permintaan produk organik juga diperkirakan meningkat pada masa mendatang seiring dengan meningkatnya kesadaran masyarakat tentang pangan yang aman dan sehat. Hal ini menyiratkan bahwa pertanian organik memiliki prospek bagus sebagai bisnis berbasis pertanian. Namun, nampaknya respon petani untuk mengadopsi teknologi pertanian organik sangat lambat yang ditunjukkan oleh rendahnya tingkat adopsi. Sebetulnya banyak negara yang memiliki pengalaman dalam adopsi pertanian organik seperti dikemukakan sejumlah literatur. Tujuan makalah ini adalah untuk mengetahui faktor penentu adopsi pertanian organik berdasarkan pengalaman penelitian di manca negara dan menarik pelajaran untuk meningkatkan tingkat adopsi di Indonesia. Sumber literatur adalah hasil hasil penelitian terkait dengan adopsi pertanian organik baik di negara maju maupun berkembang. Hasil tinjauan menunjukkan bahwa faktor penentu adopsi pertanian organik terdiri dari berbagai aspek, yaitu (1) tersedianya informasi dan pengetahuan, (2) motif ekonomi dan keuangan, (3) keterampilan teknis dan manajemen, (4) pertimbangan sosial, (5) kepedulian lingkungan, (6) lingkungan kelembagaan, dan (7) latar belakang sosial ekonomi dan demografi petani. Dengan demikian, untuk mendorong adopsi pertanian organik sejumlah aspek tersebut harus dipertimbangkan dalam perumusan kebijakan dan program. Peran pemerintah sangat penting terutama untuk meyakinkan petani tentang manfaat pertanian organik, penyediaan informasi, maupun bantuan teknis bagi petani

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Section: Environmental and Health Concernssupporting

confidence: 92%

Factors Determining Organic Farming Adoption: International Research Results and Lessons Learned for Indonesia

Ashari¹,

Sharifuddin²,

Abidin³

2018

forum penelit. agro ekon.

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“…The environmental concern is identified as the most important factor for organic farmers. [16] revealed that environmental concern has positive impact toward farmers' attitude on organic farming. The better attitude; in turn, positively affect for famers intention to adopt organic farming.…”

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confidence: 99%

Participation of Rural Women in Organic Farming

Nishi¹,

Islam²,

Ahmed³

2019

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The study assessed the participation of rural women in organic farming and explored the relationship between selected characteristics of the rural women and their extent of participation in organic farming. This investigation was a survey type of research involving descriptive and diagnostic type of research design. The study was conducted at seven unions of Batiaghata Upazila under Khulna district of Bangladesh namely Amirpur, Gangarampur, Jalma, Batiaghata, Baliadanga, Bhanderkote and Surkhali. Data were collected from randomly selected 140 respondents during the period of 20th January to 15th February, 2019. Correlation(s) test was used to ascertain the relationships between the concerned independent variables and the dependent variable and simple linear regression was done to determine the effect of the selected five independent variables (agricultural training, knowledge, attitude, practice and problem) on participation. Majority (52.1%) of the women had medium participation followed by high (44.3%) and low (3.6%) participation. Considering broadly selected 7-aspects of organic farming, the rural women’s participation was highest in land management while it was lowest in marketing the product. Among 24 issues women were found to be greatly involved in collection of organic product from their own residence while it was least in case of collection of organic product from farm. Agricultural training, knowledge, attitude and practice showed positive significant relationship out of fifteen selected characteristics of rural women and only problem showed negative significant relationship with their participation in organic farming. In case of simple linear regression 7%, 14.44%, 18.85%, 18.96% and 8.69% of the participation can be explained by the variables as agricultural training, knowledge, attitude, practice and problem respectively. It can be concluded that women participation was confined only in small scale crop production and there is a need for further enhancement of the extent of participation of rural women in organic farming.

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“…Research conducted on the factors affecting farmers' acceptance of organic farming provides critical information that can be used to encourage farmers to produce more organic products. Numerous studies have indicated that important factors of the decision to adopt organic farming include the amount of training provided; gender, which is the main determinant of organic rice farming adoption (Kerdsriserm et al, 2016); and farmers' attitudes towards farming influenced the growing of organic rice (Ashari et al, 2016).…”

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Farmers’ Adoption of Organic Rice Production in Chachoengsao Province, Thailand

Suwanmaneepong¹,

Kerdsriserm²,

Iyapunya³

et al. 2020

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This study analysed the factors affecting the adoption of organic rice production in Chachoengsao Province, Thailand. Primary data were collected through structured questionnaire completed by 108 farmers: (58 organic rice farmers and 50 non-organic rice farmers) in Chachoengsao Province, Thailand. A t-test was employed to investigate the differences in the demographics of organic and non-organic rice farmers, and percentage mean, and standard deviation was used to describe farmers’ attitudes. Logistic regression was employed to investigate factors influencing organic rice adoption, educational level, and farm size were significantly different between the organic and non-organic rice farmers. Education (positive), farming experience (positive), age of household head (negative) and farm size (negative) had highly significant (p ≤ 0.01) influences on organic farming adoption. The farmers’ attitude toward environmental concern was the most important reason for adopting organic rice farming. This research identified the factors affecting the adoption of organic rice farming; this information can be used to encourage farmers to practice organic rice farming in the targeted organic rice area in Thailand. In addition, the farmers’ attitudes toward organic farming systems could be used to help support farmers practicing organic rice farming. Keywords: organic rice adoption, organic rice production, organic farming adoption, farmer attitudes.

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Rice Farmers’ Perception And Attitude Toward Organic Farming Adoption

Cited by 12 publications

References 22 publications

Factors Determining Organic Farming Adoption: International Research Results and Lessons Learned for Indonesia

Factors Determining Organic Farming Adoption: International Research Results and Lessons Learned for Indonesia

Participation of Rural Women in Organic Farming

Farmers’ Adoption of Organic Rice Production in Chachoengsao Province, Thailand

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