Level of Community Participation in Community-Based Urban Farming Development in Banjarbaru City, Indonesia

Abstract

Community empowerment in the field of technology and the populist economy, the use of appropriate technology (TTG) has many advantages other than saving time, being able to increase production or processed products from the business that is run and optimally by transferring technology from sources to the community through empowerment. The purpose of the study was to determine: [1] the level of community participation in the implementation of urban agricultural development in the City of Banjarbaru and [2] the factors that influence participation in the implementation of urban agriculture in the City of Banjarbaru. The study used qualitative methods to examine the participant's perspectives with an interactive and flexible strategy. Determination of the location purposively. The sampling technique is proportional random sampling. Data were analyzed using the following tests: [1] scoring method and [2] statistically to see the effect of each independent variable on the dependent variable using logistic regression. The results showed that most of the people had a high level of education and most had incomes>3 million to 5 million rupiah. Most people think that in the implementation of urban agriculture a two-way method is used. The level of community participation is already high. In the participation stage, the decision-making, implementation, and evaluation stages are high, while the enjoyment stage is low. Age, education level, income level as well as access and control are not significantly related to the level of community participation. Factors that have a significant relationship with the level of participation are the leadership style of the group leader and the influence of the driving factor.