Effectiveness of management and utilization of agricultural equipment and machinery assistance (ALSINTAN) by recipient farmer groups in South Sulawesi

Abstract

Alsintan is an agricultural technology created to help farmers in farming. Alsintan aims to minimize the costs incurred by farmers such as processing time, harvesting, drying, the amount of labor, the length of land processing work and an important opportunity is the increase in rice production. Alsintan assistance is one of the Ministry of Agriculture programs intended for farmers/gapoktan/upja/farming communities with the aim to overcome labor scarcity and help accelerate the process of agricultural cultivation. This study aims to analyze the effectiveness of management and utilization of alsintan assistance in Mappedeceng District, North Luwu Regency, South Sulawesi. Data analysis techniques used are descriptive analysis to find out the effectiveness of management and utilization of alsintan assistance by farmers groups receiving alsintan results showed that the effectiveness of management and utilization of alsintan assistance is 77.04%. This shows that the management and utilization of alsintan assistance in Mappedeceng sub-district has not been effective.