Participation of women farmers on beef cattle farming management in Pandan Mulyo group, Bantul Yogyakarta

Abstract

This research was conducted to investigate level of participation and to analyze the social factors related to the level of women participation in raising beef cattle in the cattle farmers group of “Pandan Mulyo” Poncosari Village, Srandakan, Bantul. This research was a case study which gathered all women (wives) of farmer group as respondents. This research was done by interview and questionnaire methods. The data were tabulated and analyzed using Spearman’s Rank Correlation, Chi-Square, and Phi Test to analyze the relationship between social factors and level of participation. The results showed that social factors had significant correlation with level of participation,i.e. respondents age (r=0.222;P<0.01), education (r=-0.173;P<0.05), cattle raising experience (r=0.352;P<0.01), number of their own beef (r=0.308;P<0.01) and perception of farmers group (P<0.05). Chi-Square analyze indicated that farmer’s attitude had significant relationship (P<0.05) with level of participation by strength of Φ = 0.679.