Supporting food security with rice farming insurance: the farmers’ perceptions (case study in Cinta Damai Village, Percut Sei Tuan Subdistrict, Deli Serdang District)

Abstract

Rice, as the main food commodity in Indonesia, is expected to be fulfilled from national production. The Rice Farmers Business Insurance (AUTP) is one of the government programs to support national food production. The purpose of conducting this research was to analyse farmers’ perceptions of the Rice Farming Insurance (AUTP) program and to analyse the impact of farmers’ perceptions on farmers’ participation in the AUTP program. Analyses were performed with the statistical descriptions, the Mann-Whitney Test, and the Kruskal-Wallis Test. The test results showed that rice farmers who were the AUTP program participants had very good perceptions of the program objectives, benefits, and implementation. Meanwhile, rice farmers who were not the AUTP program participants had moderate perceptions of the program objectives, benefits, and implementation. The perceptions of lowland rice farmers had a significant impact on the participation of lowland rice farmers in the AUTP program. Farmers who did not participate in the AUTP program tended to have worse perceptions of the program, while farmers who participated in the AUTP program tended to have better perceptions. Suggestions had been compiled so that the AUTP program can better support farmers in stabilizing and increasing rice production to maintain national food security.

Factors correlating to the success rate of agricultural extension in improving sustainability (a case study at BPP Tanjung Beringin, Tanjung Beringin Subdistrict, Serdang Bedagai Regency)

“…To determine the main tasks implementation of agricultural extensionists, the data were analysed descriptively [19] by explaining the implementation of the agricultural extensionists' main tasks at BPP Tanjung Beringin. To know the success rate of the main tasks implemented by agricultural extensionists and to analyse the correlation between the socio-economic characteristics of extensionists on the success rate in implementing their tasks, which were analyses that require hypothesis testing, the data collected, tabulated, and then analysed were ordinal qualitative data with a scoring system [20,21]. The success rate of agricultural extensionists in carrying out their main tasks was assessed based on their level of participation in the implementation [22].…”

Factors affecting maize farming’s decision-making process as an attribute in production sustainability analysis in Percut Sei Tuan Subdistrict, Deli Serdang Regency, North Sumatera Province

“…Since data on the exact number of maize farmers could not be ascertained, based on information from related agencies in Percut Sei Tuan Subdistrict, it was estimated that there were 180 farmers cultivating maize. Of these, the number of respondents who were interviewed as the research sample was calculated using Slovin's Formula [30,31] with an error margin of 10%, so that a value of 64.29 was obtained which was rounded up to 65 respondents. This amount already exceeds the amount of data needed for quantitative statistical tests according to the Central Limit Theorem [32].…”

“…This number also meets the criteria of 10 times the number of independent variables [33], in which there were 5 independent variables used in this study, namely age, experience, number of dependents, frequency of attending agricultural extension, and ease of farming. Primary data needed for analysis were collected by conducting interviews with sample farmers who were determined randomly using the Simple Random Sampling Method [30,31].…”

Production function analysis of green onions in Merdeka Subdistrict, Karo Regency, North Sumatera Province

“…Meanwhile: n = number of samples, N = total population, e = tolerable error (α= 10%) [16], so that n = 78 samples. From the 78 green onions farmers, sampling in each village was counted proportionally based on the number of farmers there, which are 200 farmers in Jarang Uda Village and 150 farmers Merdeka Village.…”