| dc.description.abstract | The number of breeding rice seeds in North Sumatra Province is decreasing
every year. This will have an impact on the availability of rice seeds for farmers.
Meanwhile, a certification process is needed to produce quality rice seeds. The aim
of this study is to analyze the relationship between factors such as education level,
knowledge of seed certification, experience as a seed breeder, seed selling price,
land area, and rice seed production costs on the decision of seed breeders to certify
the rice seeds they produce. The method used is the Difference Test with Analysis
of Variance (ANOVA) Test with sample determination using saturated samples
(census) totaling 44 seed breeder groups. The results of the analysis show that the
variables of knowledge, experience, selling price and production costs differ
significantly to each decision taken by seed breeders in rice seed certification
activities. While the variables of education level and land area are not significantly
different, this is because the education level of the seed breeder group is almost the
same, namely an average of high school / vocational high school graduates, while
the area of land controlled by the seed breeder group is also not significantly
different between the 3 groups, the average land area of the Non-Seed Certification
group is 16.25 ha, the average land area of the Unfinished Seed Certification group
is 17.42 ha, and the average land area for the Seed Certification group is 27.35 ha | en_US |
