Abstract
Since 1984, the Japan internship program has been implemented to increase the capacity and income of young farmers in Indonesia. The existence of internship activities has changed the mindset and abilities of farmers in their farming organizations, even some of the trainee had changed their agribusiness sector when this program had ended. The purpose of this study was to identify factors that influenced farmers’ decisions in changing their agricultural businesses after the Japaninternship program. This research was conducted in East Java Province, Indonesia from September 2020 to February 2021. The farmers were selected purposively as many as 34 people. Data were analyzed using logit regression analysis. The results of the analysis showed that the factors that significantly influenced farmers’ decisions to change the type of agribusiness sector were the motivation level in the business, business experience, the existence of business license, presence of business brands, and participation in agricultural institutions. The existence of Japaninternshipactivities has changed the mindset of farmers to better manage their businesses. In addition, some farmers have even changed their agribusiness sector to a more profitable business.
Highlights
Quality human resources committed to building the agricultural sector is one of the success factors in sustainable agricultural development [1]
The data obtained from the interview results would be analyzed using logistic regression analysis because this study focused on factors influencing farmers' decisions in changing their agricultural business after participating in the Japan internship program
Farmers who had participated in the Japaninternship program had the choice to change or not in running their agricultural business sector based on the amount of capital ownership [10], the number of workers, the duration of participation in an institution [11], the benefits obtained at the start of the business [12], the level of motivation after the internship, trademark ownership, the existence of a businesslicense, and business experience in agriculture [12], [13]
Summary
Quality human resources committed to building the agricultural sector is one of the success factors in sustainable agricultural development [1]. Labor is a determining factor in the level of productivity of the agricultural sector in its contribution to Gross Domestic Product (GDP). Based on its role in GDP, the agricultural sector has contributed to a fluctuating and declining trend [2]. The agricultural sector is the sector with the largest labor absorption, were 35.42 million people or 27.37% of the total workforce work as farmers. The imbalance of the contribution to the two indicators indicates the low productivity of the agricultural sector. One of the fundamental problems contributing to the low productivity of the agricultural sector is the low rate of farmer regeneration. Youths generally prefer to work in the non-agricultural sector. Data from the Ministry of Agriculture in [4] show that there has been a decrease of 1,080,722 people from 2017 to 2018
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