ANALISIS PREFERENSI PETANI TERHADAP KARAKTERISTIK TEKNOLOGI PADI LADANG (KASUS DI KABUPATEN LAMPUNG TENGAH DAN LAMPUNG SELATAN, PROPINSI LAMPUNG)

Abstract

Rice is important role as Indonesian main food. It takes share 25-30% from
total household expenses. But, government programs still can’t fulfill farmers’ need,
because the dissemination of the program is still using delivery system approach.
Effort to fulfill the needs is by an acquisition system that pointed toward farmers to
look for technology from the information source. The main characteristic of this
system are: (1) bottom up approach, (2) horizontal hierarchy, and (3) participated and
interactive technology transfer. This paper aims to explain: (1) technology
classification used by farmers; (2) Farmers’ preference and reason to choose
appropriate technology, according to technique, economic, social-culture, and
sustainable aspects; and (3) technology characteristic used by farmer to optimize the
achieved production and productivity. The results of this study indicated that the
local and adaptive technology used by farmers was conducted by cultured approach.
Technology applied by farmers can be classified: (1) local technology (39-77%),
adaptive technology (20-23%); and advanced technology (3-38%). The priority scale
of rice technology criteria preferred by farmers was economic (0.33), sustain (0.32),
technique (0.23) and social-culture (0.12). Component technology prioritized was
fertilization, disease protection, and post harvest, with priority scale of each
component 0.24; 0.19; and 0.13. This study was also recommended that to increase
rice production, “embung” technology could be introduced to the farmers, besides
organic farming must be encouraged. Applied technology is gained based on
philosophy, tradition, and other social aspect, which becomes farmer’s motivator.