DIFFUSION OF INNOVATION FOR ORGANIC-BASED INTEGRATED AGRICULTURE (CASE STUDY OF BUMIWANGI VILLAGE, CIPARAY DISTRICT, BANDUNG REGENCY)

• Main Author: Anita Kusumawardani, Raden
• Format: Theses
• Language: Indonesia
• Online Access: https://digilib.itb.ac.id/gdl/view/55760
• Institution: Institut Teknologi Bandung

The agricultural sector in Indonesia nowadays has multi-dimensional problems where a need for increased agricultural production continues accompanied by an increasing population, a decline in the number of farmers, and the increasingly rapid conversion of agricultural land to settlements and industry. It forced the agriculture sector need immediately switch to the concept of sustainable agriculture. Organic-based integrated agriculture is an innovation that the government has offered since 2010 but has not adopted in various regions. This study aims to understand the implementation of organic-based integrated agriculture by observing the diffusion process of innovation and describing the innovation adoption constraints, also the status of sustainable agriculture of adopter farmers. The study using the convergent parallel mixed method refers to the diffusion theory of innovation by Rogers (2003) and the FAO sustainable agricultural indicator (2020) of the Sarinah Organic Farmer Group at Bumiwangi Village, Ciparay District, Bandung Regency. The results indicate that the innovation process still has constraints related to costs and marketing of innovative products, types of landowner authority decisions, and change agents. On the other side of the 11 indicators of sustainable agriculture, members of the Sarinah Organic Farmer Group are still unsustainable on the land tenure indicator. It means that farmers have no empowered to replace their tenant farmer status become landowners even though they have adopted innovations since 2004.