ABSTRAK
Penyuluhan adalah kegiatan pembelajaran bagi pelaku utama serta pelaku usaha agar mereka mau dan mampu menolong dan mengorganisasikan dirinya dalam mengakses informasi pasar, teknologi, permodalan, dan sumberdaya lainnya, dalam menjalankan usaha untuk meningkatkan produktivitas, efisiensi usaha, pendapatan dan kesejahteraan, serta meningkatkan kesadaran dalam pelestarian fungsi lingkungan hidup.
Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk : (1)Mendeskripsikan pelaksanaan penyuluhan pertanian di Kabupaten Karanganyar; (2) Mendeskripsikan karakteristik petani di Kabupaten Karanganyar; (3) Mendeskripsikan persepsi petani terhadap kegiatan penyuluhan pertanian; dan (4) Menganalisis pengaruh, baik langsung maupun tidak langsung, karakteristik petani, kegiatan internal, dan lingkungan eksternal terhadap persepsi petani pada kegiatan penyuluhan pertanian.
Penelitian di lakukan di Kabupaten Karanganyar Provinsi Jawa Tengah dengan jenis penelitian survei, teknik pengambilan sampel dilakukan dengan multistage cluster random sampling, responden adalah petani yang tergabung dalam kelompoktani sebanyak 107 orang teknik analisis data yang digunakan adalah analisis statistik deskriptif dan analisis jalur. Variabel penelitian meliputi karakteristik petani (X1), proses internal (X2), lingkungan eksternal (X3), Persepsi petani terhadap kegiatan penyuluh pertanian (Y).
Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa karakteristik petani berpengaruh secara bersama-sama terhadap persepsi petani terhadap kegiatan penyuluhan pertanian sebesar 21,80 %, lingkungan eksternal berpengaruh secara bersama-sama terhadap proses internal sebesar 46,80%, lingkungan eksternal berpengaruh secara bersama-sama terhadap terhadap persepsi petani terhadap kegiatan penyuluhan pertanian sebesar 41,40 %, proses internal berpengaruh secara bersama-sama terhadap persepsi petani terhadap kegiatan penyuluhan pertanian sebesar 30,10 %. Variabel yang paling besar pengaruhnya yaitu lingkungan eksternal yaitu dinamika kelompok, kepemimpinan kelompok dan ketersediaan sarana dan prasarana.
Kata kunci : persepsi, petani, penyuluhan
ABSTRACT
Extension is a learning activity for the main actors and businesses so that they are willing and able to help and organize which do in accessing market information, technology, capital, and other resources, to efforts to improve productivity, business efficiency, incomes and welfare, as well as raise awareness in the preservation of function environment.
This study aims to: (1) Describe the implementation of agricultural extension in Karanganyar; (2) Describe the characteristics of farmers in Karanganyar; (3) Describe the perception of farmers to agricultural extension activities; and (4) to analyze the influence, direct or indirect, farmer characteristics, internal activities, and external environment to perception of farmers on agricultural extension activities.
The research was conducted in Karanganyar Central Java Province with the type of survey research, sampling techniques performed by multistage random cluster sampling. Respondents are farmers who are members of farmer groups as many as 107 people a data analysis technique used is descriptive statistical analysis and path analysis. The research variables include characteristics of farmers (X1), internal processes (X2), external environment (X3), Perception of farmers to agricultural extension activities (Y).
The results showed that the characteristics of farmers jointly influence the perception of farmers to agricultural extension activities amounted to 21.80%, the external environment influence together against the internal processes of 46.80%, the external environment influence together against the perception farmers on agricultural extension activities amounted to 41.40%, internal processes together influence the perception of farmers to agricultural extension activities amounted to 30.10%. The variables that most influence the external environment are group dynamics, leadership groups and the availability of facilities and infrastructure.
Keywords: perception, farmers, extension