PERSEPSI PEMUDA TANI TERHADAP PEKERJAAN SEBAGAI PETANI DI KECAMATAN PURWOREJO KABUPATEN PURWOREJO

Abstract

This research was aimed to investigate the perception of youth farmers to farmer's job, to investigate the factor of perception formers, and to investigate the relationship of perception-formers factors with the perception of youth to farmer's job.  The  basic  method  used  was  descriptive  analysis  with  survey  technique.  The location of research was determined purposively that is Purworejo Subdistrict Purworejo District. The sample was determined by multistage cluster random sampling technique, as many as 60 youth farmers scattered in three villages namely Pacekelan Village, Ganggeng Village, and Paduroso Village. Data analysis used spearman rank. The results showed that the perception of youth to farmers’ job is 66.67% that youth have good perception on the farmers' job. The factors forming the perception of youth farmers in Purworejo sub district are majority of formal education in the high category, the majority of family environment in the medium category, majority social culture in low category, whereas non-formal education, primary social environment, secondary social  environment  and  cosmopolitan  majority  in  category  very  low. There  is  an intense significant relationship between family environment and socio-culture with youth perception on farmer's work at 99% confidence level, at 95% level there is a significant relationship between work involvement and primary social environment with youth perception on farmer's job, whereas formal education, non-formal education, secondary social and cosmopolitan environments do not have a significant relationship with youth perceptions of farmer's job.