ABSTRACT
The Ministry of Agriculture has designed a planting calendar technology so that farmers can carry out the
cultivation using the technical guidelines. But at the operational level the adoption rate of the planting calendar
technology is still relatively low. This paper aims to describe how the process of adoption of agricultural
technology innovation, especially regarding the planting calendar occurs in farmers in Cimanuk sub-district,
Pandenglang, Banten. location-based rice specific and know the level of adoption.
The results of the study illustrate that the adoption of the planting technology innovation in the Cimanuk subdistrict is influenced by the needs of the farmers themselves to the planting calendar technology itself. In addition,
the nature of farmers‘ cosmopolitanism also influences how the adoption of the calendar planting technology is
among them. On the other hand, agricultural extension workers have actually worked well in providing material
related to planting techniques as guided by the planting calendar, and generally farmers in the Cimanuk
Pandeglang sub-district gave a positive appreciation. It’s just that the habits and the strength of their traditional
farming patterns have occupied the highest position in their mindset in farming.
Keywords : Calendar of Planting, Adoption, Innovation, Technology.
I. INTRODUCTION
The study that has been carried out by the Agricultural
Technology Assessment Center has produced a lot of
applied farming technology that is ready to be
implemented at the farm level. But in reality, the level
of technology adoption of the assessment results has
not been optimal. One of them is the calendar planting
technology (katam) which has not been well applied
by technology users (farmers) and other stakeholders.
The reality that we often are farmers actually re-carry
out farming activities using the old way or after the
study activities are over (Efendy, et al, 2005).
In practice, to spread agricultural information (in this
case the planting calendar technology), it requires the
involvement of various parties, such as bureaucracy,
extension workers and farmers. Bureaucracy as a
source of strength determines the stability of peasant
societies in general, extension agents as suppliers of
technology and farmers as users of the technology
itself. This condition of interrelation cannot be
avoided. The contribution or involvement of one of
the parties is needed in this case, so that if there is no
involvement, it will result in the distribution of
agricultural information is not as expected
(Kartasapoetra, 1996).
