The Entrepreneurial Behavior of Semi-Organic Rice Farmers In Bantul Regency
- DOI
- 10.2991/fanres-18.2018.48How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- Behavior, Entrepreneurship, Motivation, Semi-organic
- Abstract
The success of semi-organic rice farming is mainly determined by the behavior of organic rice and the entrepreneurial behavior of the farmers in managing their farming. With a strong entrepreneurial behavior, semi-organic rice farmers are expected to increase the production of semi-organic rice farming more efficiently. This study aims to determine the entrepreneurial behaviorof semi-organic rice farmers and the factors that influence it. The research was conducted in Bantul Regency. The sample was taken intentionally from 5 farmer groups of 19 semi-organic rice farmer groups in Bantul consisted of 123 farmers. The collected were then analyzed by way of descriptive and regression analysis y. It is revealed that semi-organic rice farmers in Bantul Regency have quite a strong entrepreneurial behavior. Motivation is known to be the most influential factor in the farmers’ entrepreneurial behavior while courage in taking risks is the least influential one. Factors affecting entrepreneurial behavior are age, education level, experience, training, market orientation, a network of cooperation and government support. Strengthening the entrepreneurial behavior of the farmer can be done through farmer group by way of directing program of activity that motivates farmer to take the business opportunity, such as creating innovative mentoring activities related to organic rice farming
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- © 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
- Open Access
- This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
Cite this article
TY - CONF AU - Nur Rahmawati AU - Masyhuri Masyhuri AU - Lestari Rahayu Waluyati PY - 2018/11 DA - 2018/11 TI - The Entrepreneurial Behavior of Semi-Organic Rice Farmers In Bantul Regency BT - Proceedings of the International Conference on Food, Agriculture and Natural Resources (FANRes 2018) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 232 EP - 237 SN - 2352-5401 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/fanres-18.2018.48 DO - 10.2991/fanres-18.2018.48 ID - Rahmawati2018/11 ER -