HUBUNGAN PERSEPSI PETANI TERHADAP PEMBENTUKAN KELOMPOK TANI DENGAN MINAT BERKELOMPOK

Abstract

Strengthening farmer institutions by forming farmer groups are one solution to overcome the existing problems in the effort to develop vannamei shrimp ponds. This study aims to determine the perceptions of vannamei shrimp farmers on the formation of farmer groups, interest in groups of vannamei shrimp farmers, and the relationship between farmers' perceptions of the formation of farmer groups and group interests. The research method used a survey by determining respondents by the census to 11 farmers of vannamei shrimp in Ciandum Village, Cipatujah District, Tasikmalaya Regency. Perceptions of the formation of farmer groups and interest groups were analyzed descriptively quantitatively. Meanwhile, the correlation between perception and interest was used in the Rank Spearman correlation test. The results showed that the perception of shrimp farmers towards the formation of farmer groups was in the category of good perception. Shrimp farming farmers' interest in groups is included in the interesting category. The results of the relationship analysis show that the perception of the vaname shrimp farmers on the formation of farmer groups is closely related to group interest with a degree of closeness of 0.765 which is in the strong category