Adoption of Farmer Field School to Develop Entrepreneurship:The Case of Paddy Seed Growers and Small Business Trainees in Indonesia

DOI

10.2991/icosat-17.2018.9How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Participation, entrepreneurship, Field school, Indonesia

Abstract

Filed school (FS), in which it is the latest agricultural extension model, have succeeded to develop farmers’ awareness and ability to make a proper decision in adoption of innovation as a problem solving. Hypothetically, it would be a suitable way to develop entrepreneurship for farmer and small business holder. The paper aims to identify the participation level of paddy-seed-grower as well as small business trainee and its relationship to the entrepreneurship. The participation consists of idea, time, manpower, and fund contribution; while the entrepreneurship is initiative & risk taking ability and management skill performing. Based on Likert scale, farmer got high manpower and time dedication; and risk taking ability. The X2 test revealed that significant effect of participation toward entrepreneurship is merely for experienced and more educated participant and wider farming land owner. Therefore, the adoption of FS needs specific design for certain participants.

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© 2018, 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/).

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AU  - Ujang Maman
AU  - Iin Inawati
AU  - Mike Syefira
PY  - 2017/08
DA  - 2017/08
TI  - Adoption of Farmer Field School to Develop Entrepreneurship:The Case of Paddy Seed Growers and Small Business Trainees in Indonesia
BT  - Proceedings of the International Conference on Science and Technology (ICOSAT 2017)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 33
EP  - 37
SN  - 1951-6851
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DO  - 10.2991/icosat-17.2018.9
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