Adoption Study of Cropping Calendar Information System (CCIS) at the Sub-District Level in Indonesia

Abstract

Many efforts have been released to face the impacts of climate change. The Indonesian Ministry of Agriculture has launched cropping calendar information system (CCIS), one of the efforts to enhance adaption on climate change. The study was conducted using samples from 34 provinces to assess the implementation and adoption of CCIS. The adoption was measured by four response variables as endogenous variables, which were the number of technologies applied (Y1), the number of adopters (Y2), the land area of technologies implementation (Y3), and the land area of implementation based on cropping calendar recommendation (Y4) whereas as exogenous variables were 10 variables. The data were analysed using Structural Equation Modelling. The amount of technologies applied (Y1) was significantly influenced by the number of participants (X2), the synergy (X3) and the agro-ecosystem (X6) though the influences of X2 and X6 were in a negative direction. The second response variable (Y2) was significantly affected by the synergy (X3), the sources of information (X5), the agro-ecosystem (X6), and the rice cropping index (X7), thus only the synergy that have a significant and negative influence on the number of participants. Meanwhile, the planting season (X1), the agro-ecosystem (X6), and the disaster were found significantly influencing the land area of implementation (Y3). Yet, only the disaster provided a positive direction whilst the other variables gave negative influence. The last, Y4 was significantly and negatively induced by the synergy (X3) and the feedback methods (X9), whilst it was positively influenced by the rice cropping index (X7).