Economic behaviour versus rice farmer environmental behaviour in making food independence: Case west Java-Indonesia

Abstract

This study aims to analyze the factors that influence the behavior of rice farmers who views of economic behavior and environmental behavior. This study was conducted in three districts, Cianjur, Tasikmalaya and Subang in West Java and it was held for two months from October and November 2013. There are 246 of respondents were chosen by using stratified random sampling. This research was conducted by using both qualitative and quantitative methods with logistics regression models analysis. In behavioral seeding, the results show that farmers with category 1 (planting rice) tend to have economic behavior in farmers' seed selection compared to category 2 (replace commodity). For fertilization behavior and the use of pesticides, farmers tend not to pay attention to one category of economic behavior in the selection of farmers fertilizer compared to category 2. Behavior in fertilization, farmers with category 1 (planting rice) tend to pay attention to the behavior of the environment in the selection of farmers fertilizer compared to category 2 (change of commodities).