Factors That Influence the Interests of Households in Medicinal Plants Farming in the Covid-19 Pandemic Situation
- DOI
- 10.2991/assehr.k.210909.038How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- interest, household, medicinal plants, logistic regression
- Abstract
Utilization of available yards is one effort that can be done to cultivate the plants, especially medicinal plants during the Covid-19 pandemic. Various kinds of medicinal plants can be planted in the available yard, such as ginger, temulawak, turmeric, piper betle, lemongrass, and others. The products of medicinal plants can be used for self-consumption or sold to the market. The objective of this study was to analyze interest and factors that influence the interest of households in medicinal plants farming and analyze the responses from each factor to the interest of households in medicinal plants farming during the Covid-19 pandemic. The research was conducted in Medan City purposively. The research sample was households using purposive sampling as a sampling method. Data collection techniques using structured questionnaires, observation, and interviews. Data were analyzed using the binomial logit model. The results of the omnibus test showed that the availability of yard, availability of time, knowledge, and gender influenced the interest of household in medicinal plant farming simultaneously. While the availability of time, knowledge, and gender influenced the interest of household in medicinal plant farming partially.
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- © 2021, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
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- 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 - Aflahun Fadhly Siregar AU - Salsabila AU - Ade Firmansyah Tanjung PY - 2021 DA - 2021/09/11 TI - Factors That Influence the Interests of Households in Medicinal Plants Farming in the Covid-19 Pandemic Situation BT - Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Science, Technology, and Modern Society (ICSTMS 2020) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 168 EP - 171 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.210909.038 DO - 10.2991/assehr.k.210909.038 ID - Siregar2021 ER -