Study of adoption rate of corn integrated crop management in Southeast Sulawesi

Abstract

Dissemination of corn Integrated Crop Management (ICM) technology has been introduced to farmers, but its application is not widespread. The study aims to determine the level of adoption and socioeconomic factors that influence the opportunities for the application of corn ICM technology in Southeast Sulawesi. The study used a survey method with 90 respondents. Data analysis uses scoring techniques to determine the level of adoption of corn ICM, and logistic regression analysis to determine socioeconomic factors that influence farmers’ opportunities to adopt the technology. The results showed that the level of adoption of the technology component of corn ICM in Southeast Sulawesi was included in the moderate category with a value of 56.05%. The relatively high corn ICM technology components were adopted by farmers, namely harvest technology (84.4%), superior varieties (83.33%), and quality and labelled seed technology (66.67%). While the technology that is less adopted by farmers is embedding (26.67%) and use organic fertilizer (18.89) There are socio-economic factors that influence farmers ‘opportunities in implementing corn ICM technology, namely: age, farming experience, land area and farmers’ perceptions of the characteristics of the technology. This indicates that the socio-economic factors of farmers (age, experience of farming, land area) and farmers ‘perceptions of technology are very important in making farmers’ decisions to adopt corn ICM technology in Southeast Sulawesi.