Entrepreneurship Characters of Farmer and Rice Farming Performance in Bantul

Abstract

This study aims to know the entrepreneurial character of farmers, analyze farm performance, and analyze the relationship between entrepreneurial character of farmers and business performance of rice farming in Sewon District. The sample in this study was a rice farmer on a Sewon District as many 40 people were taken proportional random sampling. To analyze the entrepreneurial character using descriptive analysis based on data that has been analyzed with an assessment using a Likert scale. Farming performance is measured by using income and profit. Then to find out the relationship of entrepreneurial character of farmers and performance of rice farming using Spearman Rank correlation analysis. The result of the analysis show that the entrepreneurial character of rice farmer in Sewon District is included in the strong category with a percentage score of 84%. Farming rice in Sewon District in the 2021 planting season generates an income of IDR 6,334,762 and a profit of IDR 5,891,198 so that the farm is feasible to operate. The entrepreneurial character of farmers has a positive relationship with the performance of rice farming in Sewon District Bantul Regency.