Respon Petani Terhadap Kegiatan Sekolah Lapangan Pengelolaan Tanaman Terpadu (Slptt) Di Kecamatan Ajibarang Kabupaten Banyumas

SLPTT (Sekolah Lapangan Pengelolaan Tanaman Terpadu) is farmer schools with the all activities are in the field, farmers are the owner of the field . By learn on theirs own fields, hopes farmers can figure out theirs problems on theirs farming business also they can solve the problems together. The aim of this research are : (a) to studies farmers responses about SLPTT, (b) to recognize affecting factors about farmer's responses towards SLPTT activities and (c) to understands affecting applications of cultivation suitable as recommend of SLPTT rice productions improvement. The research had been held on 2009, in Ajibarang subdistrict, Banyumas district, Central Java province with the samples are farmer who join with SLPTT on 2008/2009 and their main cultivation is rice. The analytic description methode had used in this research as the basic methode, while the stratified random sampling methode had used as a sampling methode with 60 farmers. Some data analysis in this research includes : proportion test for 1st hypothesis, double linear regression analytic for 2nd hypothesis, and simple linear regression for 3rd hypothesis. In this reaserch the final result which is used propotional analysis proved a little bit of the farmers (>50%) in Ajibarang subdistrict has good responses about SLPTT activities. The doubled linear regression analysis showed that educations level, being active in farmers group and their frequency to joined the elucidation influenced the farmer's responses. Ages, field wide and status from their field have no influenced. And with simple linear regression showed that cultivation applications have no influenced with the rice productions

Strategi Penguatan Kelompok Tani Ngudi Raharjo III di Desa Lemberang, Kecamatan Sokaraja, Kabupaten Banyumas

In this research, the authors will propose several appropriate strategies for strengthening the Ngudi Raharjo III Farmer Group in Lemberang Village, Sokaraja District, Banyumas Regency, Central Java. The proposed strategy will be compiled based on IFE and EFE analysis, SWOT, and QSPM analysis to get the strongest strategy and can be a top priority to be implemented in strengthening the empowerment of farmer groups. This research is expected to provide the right solution to empower and maximize the potential of farmer groups so that the benefits can be felt for all group members. After identifying external and internal factors, the next strategy analysis is a SWOT strategy analysis. As the resulting strategy from the SWOT analysis for strengthening the Ngudi Raharjo III Farmer Group, a QSPM produced a priority strategy from the existing strategy. Assistance by agricultural experts from Jenderal Soedirman University was the main strategy and a priority to be carried out with the highest Sum Total Attractiveness Scores (STAS) among other strategies on QSPM Analysis, amounting to 6.91