The Role Of Agricultural Extension In The Empowerment Of The Tampilon Putra Farmer Group In Belayan Village, North Malinau

Muhammad Arbain, Nia Kurniasih, Wahyu Agang, Anang Sulistyo, Samaria Samaria

Abstract


The role of extension workers in empowerment is to help farmers improve their welfare by enriching knowledge, where extension workers help farmers to be independent, strong and able to solve a problem. The aims of this study were to determine the role of agricultural extension workers in empowering the Tampilon Putra farmer group in Belayan Village, North Malinau District. Knowing the level of empowerment of the Tampilon Putra farmer group in Belayan Village, North Malinau sub-district. Knowing the strategy of empowering the Tampilon Putra farmer group through agricultural extension workers in Belayan Village, North Malinau District. The location of this research is the Tampilon Putra Farmers Group, Belayan Village, North Malinau District, Malinau Regency. The sampling method used in this research is purposive sampling. Respondents in this study amounted to 30 people, namely the Tampilon Putra farmer group with active members. The data analysis used in this research is descriptive qualitative to determine the role of agricultural instructors in empowering farmer groups, secondly using a Likert scale to measure attitudes, opinions, perceptions of a person or group of people about the occurrence of social phenomena, third using SWOT analysis to determine farmer group empowerment strategies. Based on the results of the study that the role of agricultural extension workers as motivators, facilitators, and educators was (Good) in the process of empowering the Tampilon Putra Farmer Group, the level of empowerment of farmer groups with the level of participation, fulfillment of needs and skills possessed by farmer group members was (Good), strategy empowerment of farmer groups shows the value of x<0 that is 0.69 and y>0.65. This means that the position of the farmer group empowerment strategy is in quadrant 1 with the recommendation given is a growth strategy.

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