Improving Performance of Krayan Rice Farming Entrepreneurship-based Indonesia-Malaysia Border Society

Abstract

The agribusiness sector as the basis of regional development and economic development is an important factor in improving the welfare of rural communities especially in border regions Indonesia-Malaysia. The amount of potential economic based on natural resources in the border regions is not matched the ability of human resources in term of utilization and management This study aims to improve the Krayan rice farming entrepreneurship performance. In the data collection, a total sample of 200 farmers purposive sampling method were used. The model based collected data was developed using the structural equation model and assisted by the AMOS program. The results showed that overall, the entrepreneurial intention model fulfilled the norms of the model fit (Chi-Square: 68.333; Probability: 0.398; RMSEA: 0.013; GFI: 0.956; AGFI: 0.930; CFI: 0.998) which means the developed model was appropriate with the existing empirical conditions. The entrepreneurship variable has a great influence in shaping the performance of farmers with a coefficient value of 0.992 which proves that entrepreneurship is an intermediary variable to increase human resources in the border region, especially for adan rice farmers in Krayan district, Nunukan district.