Faktor-Faktor yang Berhubungan dengan Keputusan Petani Menanam Ubi Kayu sebagai Tambahan Pendapatan (Kasus: Desa Nagur Pane, Kecamatan Sipispis, Kabupaten Serdang Bedagai)

Abstract

Indonesian agriculture has an important part in people's lives, including North Sumatra Province. In 2020, the majority of North Sumatra's population worked in the agricultural sector, amounting to 2.6 million people (BPS, 2020b). The high number of people working in the agricultural sector means that this sector has become a mainstay sector in North Sumatra. One of North Sumatra's mainstay subsectors after plantation crops is food crops, one of which is cassava. The largest cassava producer in North Sumatra is Serdang Bedagai Regency. One of the cassava producing sub-districts in Kebaputan Serdang Bedagai is Sipispis Sub district, but there are still villages that do not have farmer groups and extension workers but on average the community earns additional income from cassava, namely Nagur Pane Village. The problem in this village is that the community still has minimal knowledge regarding the condition of the land in this village which is not suitable for planting cassava and a lack of knowledge in increasing cassava productivity. This happens because there are no farmer groups or extension workers. This research aims to determine the factors that are significantly related to farmers' decisions to plant cassava in Nagur Pane Village, Sipispis District, Serdang Bedagai Regency. This research uses binary logistic linear regression analysis with the independent variables Age (X1), farming experience (X2), land area (X3), education level (X4), and number of family dependents (X5). This research uses primary and secondary data. Primary data was obtained through interviews with 31 horticultural farmers and secondary data was obtained through village statistical data. The selection of the research location was carried out purposively. Sampling was taken using a probability sampling technique, namely simple random sampling using the Slovin formula. The results of this research show that the factors that are significantly related to farmers' decisions to plant cassava are farming experience (X2) and number of family dependents (X5). So the research can be a reference for the government in equitable agricultural development through extension workers and farmer groups and for further researchers can add variable factors related to farmers' decisions to plant cassava