Abstract
The effort to increase hybrid maize in Indonesia is one of the government's crucial programs. Given that multinational companies still master hybrid corn seed technology, farmers need to become independent seed producers with the introduction of technology. Despite the difficulty level of technology, capital and resources are limited. The study aims to analyze the effectiveness of hybrid corn seed technology using the Importance Performance Analysis (IPA) approach in the demonstration plot of maize nurseries in Kendal Regency in 2018-2019. We surveyed at the end of 2019 activities to 33 farmers and 12 assisting officers. The result of this research is the level of interest suitability and technology performance of hybrid corn seeds of 82.61 percent. The average competent value of interest is 4.39, and the performance value is 3.63. Three attributes that have a high level of significance, but whose performance is not yet optimal are rouging, detasselling, and machine seed processing. In the future, evaluate the three attributes as an effort to produce quality hybrid maize seeds at the farmer level on a large scale that can be activated.
Highlights
Among programs having been developed by the government is introducing hybrid corn seedling technology at farm level in order to realize advanced, independent, and modern agriculture
Given the description and findings of the previous researches, the purpose of this study was to analyze the effectiveness of hybrid corn seed technology introduced to farmers through a hybrid corn seedling demonstration plot using Importance Performance Analysis (IPA) approach
The IPA analysis showed that the importance and the performance of the attributes associated with the effectiveness of Bima Uri 20 hybrid corn seedlings from upstream to downstream varied, which could be described as follows: Fig. 2
Summary
Among programs having been developed by the government is introducing hybrid corn seedling technology at farm level in order to realize advanced, independent, and modern agriculture. Among which were community-based composite corn seed breeding conducted in 2004 to 2009 in South Sulawesi, Gorontalo, NTB, NTT, South Kalimantan and Central Sulawesi [1], three-line cross-hybrid corn seed breeding 01 (STJ 01) in South Kalimantan in 2012, 1,000 self-supported seed villages, self- supported seed villages program, and models of self-supported seed zone, which were began in 2016 [1]. In 2018 – 2019, hybrid corn seedling technology started to be introduced in Kendal District of Central Java Province with consideration of high demand for hybrid corn seeds while its price began to be unaffordable for farmers [2], as hybrid corn seeds were controlled by multinational company [3]. In addition to the aforementioned matters, independent corn seed production needs to be done because of limited hybrid corn seeds and prices that are increasingly too expensive for farmers [11]
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