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Effect of
integrated pest management farmer field school (IPMFFS) on
farmers’ knowledge, farmers groups’ ability, process of adoption and
diffusion of IPM in Jember district
Rizal
Rustam
State
Polytechnic of Jember, Indonesia. E-mail:
rizalsp2001@yahoo.com.
Accepted 14 December, 2009 |
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This research aims to explore the effect of the
integrated
pest management farmer field School (IPMFFS) on farmers’ knowledge, farmers groups’ ability, and process of adoption
and diffusion of IPM in Jember District. The population of
the research was 556 groups of farmers, with 22.240 farmers
who are engaged in the
IPMFFS
in Jember District. The sample of this research consisted of
400 farmers selected with stratified area random sampling
technique. Area or region will be used as basis for
sub-district: from 31 sub-districts will be taken 8 sub
districts by random, and each sub-district will be
represented by 2 farmer groups. It means 16 farmers group
can act as sample and 400 farmers as sample taken
proportionally. The conclusion is rationalized with the
following points: (1) the IPMFFS has significant effect on
farmers’ knowledge, (2) the
IPMFFS
improves three aspects of farmer groups’ ability, that is
the ability to plan activity for improving agribusiness
productivity, to implement and obey agreement with other
institution and to apply technology, information and team
work, (3) The IPMFFS has the ability to improve the adoption
of Integrated Pest Management (IPM) by the farmers, and (4)
the IPMFFS has the ability to improve diffusion of IPM by
the farmers to other farmers.
Key words:
Integrated pest management, farmers’ knowledge, farmer group
ability, adoption, diffusion. |
