Beef Cattle Farmers’ Group Cohesion In Bantul And Sleman Regencies Yogyakarta Special Region

Abstract

The study was aimed to analyze the cohesion level of beef cattle farmers’ groups of Bismo in Bantul and Sido Makmur in Sleman Regencies Yogyakarta Special Region. The analysis was based on the components forming group cohesion including farmers’ attractiveness in group goals, group activities, membership of the group, and interpersonal relationship among the members of the group.  All the active members of the groups were selected as respondents. Data were gathered by interviewing the respondents directly using questionnaire. Descriptive analysis was used to describe the level of cohesion. The results showed that there was a difference kind of components being the highest score achievement percentage in forming group cohesion between Bismo and Sido Makmur Groups. Bismo group had group activities attraction (95.98%) as the main indicator for its member to commit to the group, while the membership of the group was the main attraction indicator (97.33%) for the member of Sido Makmur to stay in a group. Although the attractions indicator of cohesion including interpersonal and farmers’ group goal were in high score achievement percentage for both of the Groups of Bismo (89,81% and 88.21%) and Sido Makmur (88.98% and 86.67%), but they had not been used optimally yet as the main reference by the farmers’ member of the group to commit to the groups. The conclusions of the research were that there was a high category level of beef cattle farmers’ group cohesion for both Bismo and Sido Makmur groups. The farmers’ group activities and membership of the group was the main attractions indicator of beef cattle farmers’ group cohesion.