Proceeding of the 1st International Conference on Food and Agriculture
Abstract
The involvement of family members of tobacco farmers in farming activities has been commonly practised in Jember Indonesia. For youths and children, doing farming activities was a matter of helping their parents and earning money from their own works. Despite the involvement of youths and children has been practiced from generation to generation in the local people, and that the practice has been perceived significant in the business, there has been no study aimed to deepen the reality of their involvement in the tobacco farming activity. Therefore, to fill this void this study aims to: (a) describe the characteristics and roles of the young generation involved in NO tobacco farming, (b) analyse the nature of transfer of knowledge and skills received by youth groups. The results of the study show: (i) youth groups began to get involved at the age of 13 years and up to 24 years, (ii) The role of the young people was primarily to handle cultivation, transportation, to warehousing, and (iii) transfer of knowledge and skills was obtained from their parents as a mentor mainly comprising of the knowledge on tobacco characteristics and the types of NO tobacco based on the planting time
