The Relevance Of Farmers' Socio-Economic Conditions In Decision Making In Integrated Crops-Livestock Patterns In Pringgabaya District, East Lombok Regency

Abstract

Integrated crops-livestock systems is a farming concept that consists of several subsystems. One subsystem with another subsystem has a mutualism symbiotic relationship, where each subsystem benefits from each other. The purpose of this study was to analyze the socio-economic factors of farmers that influence farmers' decision making in using an integrated farming pattern that produces optimally. The research method was a quantitative approach with multiple regression analysis. Determination of research respondents was done by "random sampling", where the respondents used in this study were 68 respondents. East Lombok Regency. The results showed that the variables that had a significant effect on the decision to apply the optimal pattern in integrated crop-livestock farming were the variables of land area, capital, number of workers and income. While the variables that have no effect are education, age, experience of plant farming and experience of livestock farming.