Farmer' Perception of Risks on Production and Post-Harvest towards the Performance of Dairy Farmers in Getasan Semarang District

Abstract

A deficiency of cow's milk in order to meet national consumption demand makes dairy cows potential to be developed in Indonesia. Nevertheless, dairy farmers usually face up a variety of risk in production and post-harvest activities while running their businesses. Based on these conditions, production and post-harvest risk management needs to be carried out by dairy farmers to reduce the risks that might occur. However, its implementation cannot be separated from the farmers' perception on the risks in production and post-harvest. Therefore, this study has purpose to analyzed perceptions of production and post-harvest risk on the performance of dairy farmers. The analytical method was carried out by perceptual analysis with scoring techniques and utilize average determination. The research respondents were 100 dairy farmers. The results showed that perceptions of production risk on the performance of dairy farmers were categorized as poor. This indicates the perception of post-harvest risk towards the performance of dairy farmers was good.