Persepsi dan Minat Pemuda Desa dalam Mendukung Regenerasi Petani di Desa Sukamulya Kabupaten Karawang

Abstract

Farmer regeneration is a way to replace old farmers who are no longer productive with young farmers who are more productive. The disinterest of village youth in becoming farmers has resulted in a lack of interest in village youth in supporting farmer regeneration. This research aims to analyze the farmer regeneration process and analyze the influence of the variables of knowledge, perception, attitudes and interests of village youth simultaneously and partially in supporting farmer regeneration in Sukamulya Village. The research method used in this research is a mix method approach, namely a method that combines quantitative and qualitative methods. The sampling method used was a probability sampling method with a simple random sampling technique with a total of 44 village youth whose parents were farmers. This research uses primary data and secondary data. The data analysis techniques used are quantitative data analysis and qualitative data analysis. Quantitative data analysis uses multiple linear regression analysis. Meanwhile, qualitative data analysis uses data reduction, data presentation, and drawing conclusions. The results of this research are that the farmer regeneration process in Sukamulya Village has not been running optimally, this is due to the negative perception of youth towards farmers. Farmers' children are disinterested because their parents do not own agricultural land. Apart from that, Field Agricultural Instructors (PPL) play less of a role in growing young people's interest in entering the agricultural sector in order to create farmer regeneration. The results of the partial significance test show that the variable of interest (X4) has a significant effect on the farmer regeneration variable (Y) with a value of Sig. equal to 0.000 < 0.05, while the variables knowledge (X1), perception (X2), attitude (X3) do not have a significant effect on the farmer regeneration variable (Y) because the Sig. > 0.05.