Farmers' Perception of Corporate Farming Institution in Paddy Farming in Ogan Komering ILIR Regency of South Sumatera Province

Abstract

This study explains about paddy farmer's perception of the institutional corporations (corporate farming) for the development of paddy farming in Ogan Komering Ilir regency, South Sumatra province. The aim of this paper is to determine the perception of paddy farmers of farmer institutions with the corporate system (corporate farming). The condition of up and down of paddy farming ecosystem can still be developed to increase the welfare of farmers, that is if the farmers' perception was used as an input for the arrangement of farmer institutional development program. This goal achievement would be even more effective if the institutional system of paddy farming was transformed into institutional corporations (corporate farming). To know the perception of paddy farmers of corporate farming institution, it was measured by the score percentage comparison given by all the respondents with a maximum score obtained from all items of the questionnaire. Mathematically, it can be expressed as follows: Farmers' perception = (total score obtained: maximum score) x 100%. The calculations showed that, in general, the perception of farmers on corporate farming system institutional categorized as fair or good, this showed that the implementation of a corporate farming institution can be implemented in OganKomering Ilir regency. To encourage the institutional success of the corporate farming system, it is necessary to collaborate with government, private sector and farmers.