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Correlation Between Farmer Characteristic With Their Motivation In CultivateA Sugar Cane (In Case Of Dewi Ratih 1 Farmer Group At Maospati Village,Subdistrict Of Maospati, Magetan Regency) Sugar cane plant plays an important role in meeting the sugar consumtion needs ofsociety and industrial sector. In order to support the improvement of sugar cane plantproduction, the government should provide an input or direction that is needed bysugar cane farmers as a motivation for farmers to increase the production of sugarcane as a raw material for sugar. The characteristics of the farmers have become oneof important factors that affect the farmer motivation in cultivation of sugar caneplant in farmer’s group of Dewi Ratih 1, Maospati Village, Maospati Districts,Magetan Regency. Which is expected to be a reference for the government and thefarmers in determine the policies and development strategies in order to make sugarcane farming can improve revenue and the welfare of the farmers. The purpose ofthis research is to identify the characteristics of the farmer, motivation of the farmersin cultivating sugar cane plant and determine the correlation between the farmerscharacteristics and the farmer motivation in cultivating sugar cane plant in farmer’sgroup of Dewi Ratih 1, Maospati village, Maospati districts, Magetan regency. Thissampling by using simple random method. Data analysis method that is used isdescriptive analysis and spearman rank correlation coefficient test. The result ofdescriptive analysis shows that the farmers characteristics included in the lowcategory, while the farmer motivation in cultivation of sugar cane plant included inthe medium category. The result of spearman rank correlation analysis shows that thecharacteristics of the farmers who have a significant correlation with the motivationof the farmers is age, household income, vast of arable land, the number ofhousehold members, and farming experience.

The research aimed to determine: (1)farmer s behavior on wet land conservations in Kulon Progo Regency (2) Tht:impact of land carrying capacity and socio economicfactors tofarmer s behavior on wet land conservations, and (3) The impact offarmer s behavior on wet land conservations to their agribusiness income.The method used in this study was descriptive analysis. The research was done in Kulon Progo Regency, especially in Nanggulan and Kokap Sub District. The locations chose bypurposive sampling method to represent area that have high level of land carrying capacity and low level of land carrying capacity. The respondents chose by multistage random sampling method. Farmers behavior on wet land conservations measured with Proportion Test by Dajan. Therefore, the impact of land carrying capacity and socio economicfactors to farmer s behavior on wet land conservations, and the impact of farmer s behavior on wet land conservations to the farmer s agribusiness income measured with multiple linear regression analysis.The results indicated that more than 50%farmers in Kulon Progo regency have a high level of conservations behavior, especially in vegetative methods. Mechanics methods were in middle level. The level of land carrying capacity did not influence farmer's behavior on wet land conservations. Farmers in both area have a high level behavior on wet land conservations. Thesocio economicfactors influenced thefarmer s behavior on wet land conservations significantly were age, conservation knowledge, motivation, activity in group, non agribusiness income, availability of organics input and leadership. The high level of farmer s behavior on wet land conservations did not influence their agribusiness income. But the relationship was positive, the more increase offarmer s behavioronwetland conservations, themore farmer s agribusiness income.Key words: Land Carrying Capacity, Socio Economic Factors, WetLand Conservations, Agribusiness Income