The attitude of farmers to the snake fruit-based creative economic development plan in Kutambaru Village, Tiganderket Subdistrict, Karo Regency

Abstract

Agribusiness institutions in Kutambaru Village that is accompanied by the USU Team has planned the development of the creative economy in the form of product processing and agrotourism activities based on snake fruit. For this reason, a study entitled Farmers’ Attitudes toward the Snake Fruit-Based Creative Economy Development Plan in Kutambaru Village was conducted with the aim to 1) analyse the attitudes of snake fruit farmers toward snake fruit-based creative economy development plans (processed products and agrotourism), and 2) analyse the socio-economic factors related to the attitude of these snake fruit farmers. The Likert Summated Rating Method was used to study the farmer’s attitude and to analyse the relationship between the factors related to the attitude, the Spearman’s Rank Method was used. The results showed that the attitude of farmers is included in the category of support or agree. Factors related to farmers’ attitudes are farmers’ insights about the science of processing snake fruit products and farmers’ access to the media. Meanwhile, factors related to farmers’ attitudes are the duration of farmers’ experiences in farming snake fruit, farmers’ access to the media, and farmers’ insights about snake fruit agrotourism.

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