Paddy farmer households' participation and food security level in special effort program in Seputih Raman sub-district of Central Lampung Regency

4th International Conference on Sustainable Agriculture and Environment

农业科学;生态环境科学

Rangga, K.K.^1 ; Syarief, Y.A.^1

Department of Agricultural Social Economic, Lampung University, Indonesia^1

关键词: Food availability;    Food distribution;    Food security;    Household food;    Spearman's rank correlation;   

Others  :  https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1755-1315/142/1/012060/pdf
DOI  :  10.1088/1755-1315/142/1/012060

来源: IOP

【 摘 要 】

The objectives of this study are to study the participation of paddy farmers in the Special Effort program to increase paddy production, to study the level of household food security of paddy farmers, and to analyze the correlation between farmer participation and food security level of paddy farmers. The location was chosen purposively in Seputih Raman sub-district. The data were collected from December 2016 to February 2017. The population of this study was paddy farmers who participating in Special Effort program. The hypothesis was tested by using Spearman's Rank correlation test. Farmer household's food security was measured objectively based on the share of household's food expenditure and subjectively based on the opinion, views, and attitudes or farmers' opinions on food availability, food distribution, and household food consumption. This research showed that farmers' participation in Special Effort program in Seputih Raman Sub Ditrict, Central Lampung Regency belonged to medium classification, household food security either objectively or subjectively was in food resistant condition of medium classification, and there was significant correlation between farmers' participation and food security level of paddy farmer household.