Motivation of farmers to participate in beef cattle business with profit sharing system

Abstract

Motivation can encourage farmers to implement a profit-sharing system for beef cattle in an effort to increase their family income. The purpose of this study was to determine the motivation of farmers to conduct profit sharing system for their beef cattle business. This type of research was quantitative descriptive. The number of samples were 50 farmers from ten villages in Patimpeng district, Bone regency, which were carried out by simple random sampling. Data collection was carried out through interviews with the help of questionnaires and analyzed using descriptive statistics. This study showed that farmers have a good motivation in conducting the production profit sharing system for beef cattle business consisting of variables such as: (1) the economic demand of the family; (2) limited business capital; (3) improve social status; and (4) easier profit-sharing system implementation.