Proceeding of 2013 International Seminar on Climate Change and Food Security ISCCFS 2013
Palembang, South Sumatra -Indonesia, 24-25 October,2013
54 institutional or infrastructure held by farmers, businessmen, or any other agency or non-governmental
organizations
[6], [13]
. Institutional empowerment of agriculture is a strategic step that get attention from many parties,
especially the government. Institutions is one of the factors supporting the farms in reaching food security. According to
[13]
an institution is characterized by its structure, clear objectives, participants, and has technology and resources. The village-level institutions related to rice farming is a group of farmers, women
farmers, and farmer groups, Koperasi Unit Desa KUD, barns, Badan Penyuluhan pertanian BPP , agriculture services, and others.
Rice barn is one of the popular economic institutions built by the government with a good reason as one means of coping as well as for the realization of food security mechanisme society. Institutional barns
society is still at modest levels and socially-oriented, have the potential to be developed and revitalized trough empowerment process in a systematic, integrated, intact and continuous by involving all relevant
elements in rural area. To determine the relationship construction of barns to the welfare of farmers is most need for assessment. In accordance with above problems, this study aims at: 1 Analyzing the performance
of barns in South Sumatra, 2 Analyzing the relationship performance of barns to the welfare of farmers in South Sumatra Province.
2. Research Framework
This approach is designed to get a description, picture, or the conclusion of an assessment within a limited period. Diagrammatic analysis model research are presented in Figure 1. Rice Barn System
Performance supported by three aspects: 1 aspects of management, 2 Aspects of Tehnic, and 3 Aspects of Behavior. Goes on three aspects must be supported by institutional factors between officials and members
barns. Each of these aspects is observed to have different characteristics. If the characteristics of each institution is known, it can be easily analyzed impact barns in South Sumatra Province can be analyzed
further for policy makers will be able to construct a measure empowerment. Institutional empowerment of farmers is expected to strengthen the position of farmers in the market and ultimately lead to improving the
welfare of farmers.
Fig. 1: Research Framework The hypothesis proposed to analyze the effects of rice barns on the level of welfare of farmers is rica
barn that has gone well and active real have correlated positively with an increase in the welfare of farmer family.
3. Research Method
The research was conducted in the province of South Sumatra during April to September 2009. The method used in this research was a survey of barns South Sumatra Province. The sampling method used in
Management, Tehnical, and Behaviour Aspects
FarmersRice Barns Member Performance
Simple, Forward, Advanced Officials
Lingkage between Rice Barn and Welfare
increased production,
prevalence
of malnutrition, poor families, prevalence of hunger, increase revenue
Rice Barns
Proceeding of 2013 International Seminar on Climate Change and Food Security ISCCFS 2013
Palembang, South Sumatra -Indonesia, 24-25 October,2013
55 this study was disproportioned stratified random sampling, with consideration of the number of members
barns unbalanced sample, with 22 active rice barn and 8 inactive rice barn in every district at South Sumatera. Discussion is limited to only look at the qualitative aspects of the Food Barn management,
technic, and behavior using a scoring method. The method used in this research was a survey of barns South Sumatra Province. Overall in this study using two approaches, namely quantitative and qualitative
approaches. The quantitative approach is a primary approach, while the qualitative approach as an approach to support analysis, especially in explaining. Assessment score to rice barn performance were divided into
three categories: simple, forward, and advanced. The score will be displayed in the form of average and classified in the class interval using Likert Skala. To answer the hypothesis that the formula used
Contingency Correlation coefficient test C in which to measure the closeness of the simplest relationship between two groups of variables using the formula as follow:
Ho= There are no relationship between rice barns performance and welfare of farmer of rice barns member Ha= There are relationship between rice barns performance and welfare of farmer of rice barns member
C =
2 2
X N
X
Where : X
2
=
1 1
,
1 1
2
c p
db Eij
Eij Oij
P I
C J
If
2 2
db x
hit x
Reject Ho
4. Result and Discussion
