COMMUNITY'S PERCEPTION TO THE EXISTENCE OF PIGS’ FARM IN LANGKE REMBONG SUB-DISTRICT OF MANGGARAI REGENCY, INDONESIA

Abstract

A research was conducted in order to determine the community’s perception to the pigs’ farm existence in Langke Rembong Sub-district, Manggarai Regency, Indonesia. The research method applied was survey. Data were collected in two stages. First, five villages were selected as location samples refers to the high population of the pigs. Second, the criteria of respondents were people who live surround the location of the pigs’ farm and direct neighbors of the pig’s farmers with a radius of 10 m -15 m. Therefore, the research covered totally 200 respondents. Primary data were obtained by applying observation and directly interview based on prepared questionnaires. The data, then, were analyzed descriptively statistic using Likert scale based on rating value of each answer. There were four variables observed, namely smell, waste processing, and social cultural. The result showed that the community’s perception on sub variable of smell reached 67.7% which categorized moderately disturbed. In contrast, concerning voice, there was 48.4% of the community’s perception was not disturbed by the voice. However, 73.4% of the community’s perception was disturbed by the waste processing existence. The sub variable of social cultural showed that 70.6% of the communities perception was agree with the existence of the pig farms.

Keywords

• community’s perception
• environment
• livestock
• farming
• pigs