Conservation agriculture (CA) is actually promoting agricultural practices to be able to adapt to climate change is erratic in the past few years. The CA is a farming technique that utilizes the resources of agriculture wisely, not just take the result alone but focus on saving of water and soil humidity to meet the needs of the plants. Therefore, this innovation is considered the right way to minimize the impact of climate change on dry land. Although innovation proved to be superior, but implementation depends on how the effectiveness of the extension communication model delivered by extension officers to farmers. The extension communication is done effectively will be able to increase the motivation and participation of farmers in implementing innovation. Initially study showed that the CA was successfully adopted by farmers of Camplong-2 village. This research aims to analyze the extension communication model that applied and to analyze the farmer's attitude towards extension communication model was applied. Data were analyzed descriptively using the Likert scale approach and SPSS computed. Results are; 1) extension communication model used by field workers in implementing the CA was a local wisdom extension communication called the gotong royong' extension communication model that collaboration among the AEW, FAO field worker and researcher in which they have built consensus along with farmers to determined information, time and kind of activities in running the Participatory Training and FFS for CA. This approach had increased adaptation and adoption of CA innovation by farmers. 2) farmer's attitude towards the gotong royong' extension communications model was at favorable up to strongly favorable level that acknowledged by 82.6% farmers with an average score of 4.2 or the maximum percentage achieved score of 84%.
Levis, LR; Lehar, L
Farmers attitude toward the 'gotong royong' extension communication model in the implementation of conservation agriculture at Camplong-2 village of Kupang district, West Timor - Indonesia
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