The study on the performance of beef cattle farmer groups as an economic institution in indonesia: Based on the communication networks

Abstract

This study aimed to analyze the relationship between beef cattle farmers' characteristics and the communication networks. The research location was a group of beef cattle farmers in Subang Regency, West Java Province and took place from May to December 2019. This was a quantitative research with Sari Mulya Mandiri and Bina Insani farmers groups as the research samples. The respondents were 30 beef cattle farmers. The data collected were processed by Sociometric Analysis, Analysis of Communication Network Structure, and Spearman Rank Correlation Test. The results showed that the farmer characteristics were significantly related to the communication networks for all information.