THE CAPACITY OF HUMAN RESOURCES OF FARMERS IN DEVELOPMENT OF AGROFORESTRY IN THE SUB-DISTRICT OF LEMBANG, WEST BANDUNG AS A BASIS FOR DEVELOPING LOCAL ECONOMY

• Main Author: Riana, Yuni
• Format: Final Project
• Language: Indonesia
• Online Access: https://digilib.itb.ac.id/gdl/view/40562
• Institution: Institut Teknologi Bandung

Limited land resource and the large amount of population pressure has caused land conversion problems, turning agricultural land for non-agricultural use. This has resulted in a narrowing of the agricultural land area and impacted the food security, farmer’s livelihood, and financial condition. Agroforestry is a solution to overcome these problems. Agroforestry integrates agricultural activities on forest land in addition to increasing production while also maintain environmental sustainability. One of the factors for the success of Agroforestry practices is the community involvement every steps on the process. Therefore, it requires human resources (farmers) with sufficient capacity to run Agroforesty. However, the practice of Agroforestry is different from the practice of farming on ordinary agriculture. Agroforestry involves forest management to preserve forests, involves agribusiness activities (upstream-downstream), and is polycultural. So this study aims to measure the extent of farmers’ human resource capacity in developing Agroforestry as a basis for developing local economy. In the implementation, the research was conducted in Lembang, West Bandung Regency, Suntenjaya Village to be exact, because this region had the largest number of farmers compared to other regions in Lembang and other than being surrounded by forest areas, there was a development of Agroforestry in reserved forest area along the Manglayang Barat Mountains range. This research was conducted with quantitative research and data collection using questionnaires with stratified random sampling method by using the characteristics of the sample respondents are farmers which are members of active farmer groups. The analytical method used is Inferential Statistics Range Estimated Proportion Population to get an overview of the entire population, from the sample information data.