Tenure of agricultural assets farmers affected by policy on national strategic project development in Klaten Regency

Abstract

Klaten is one of the three regencies in Central Java affected by the construction of the Solo-Yogyakarta toll road, and at the same time, it is the widest area for constructing this route. The purpose of this article is to describe agricultural mastery by farmers as a national project strategy. This article is part of research on the Response of Affected Farmers to the Strategic National Project policy for toll development. A research method is a quantitative approach by taking as many as 251 respondents who are taken representatively from the east, west, central, north and south sides. The performance of the control of agricultural assets is seen from (1) the average area of land owned by farmers, (2) the percentage of farmers on the status of farmers' land ownership, (3) the distribution of land ownership and control, (4) the distribution of farmers' occupations, (5) income from agricultural sector and (6) sources of income in the agricultural sector. Data were analyzed descriptively analytically with frequency tabulation. In conclusion, most respondents have land ownership status as cultivators, owning 0.01 to 0.49 ha of land, and consider farming their main occupation.