The Role of Extension Workerss in the Development of Agriculture Information Network through Cyber Extension in Lampung Province

Dame Trully Gultom, Sumaryo Gitosaputro

2018

Abstract

Mechanism of development of information network system of agricultural development through cyber extension need to be developed by extension workers so that farmer requirement of agriculture information can be fulfilled. This study aims to analyze (1) the role of extension workers involvement in agriculture development information network system through cyber extension, (2) Factors related to extension workers involvement in information network system of agricultural development through cyber extension. The research was conducted in areas with potential to develop food crops and horticulture, namely in South Lampung District and Metro District. The study was conducted in four sub-districts and eight villages. The research was conducted by census, all of the extension workers which have the target area in Jati Agung Sub District, Natar Sub District, Metro South Sub District and West Metro District. The number of respondents are 44 people. Data were analyzed descriptively and inferentially by Mann Whitney's different test and Rank Spearman correlation test. The results of the research show (1) The involvement of extension workers in agricultural information network system through cyber extension is characterized by different age, extension workers income, and the use of cyber extension between extension workers which is civil servant and extension workers which is still honour, (2) Factors related to the involvement of extension workers in information systems of agricultural development through cyber extension are age, extension workers income, motivation, level of cosmopoli and extension workers performance.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Gultom D. and Gitosaputro S. (2018). The Role of Extension Workerss in the Development of Agriculture Information Network through Cyber Extension in Lampung Province.In Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Recent Innovations - Volume 1: ICRI, ISBN 978-989-758-458-9, pages 2159-2165. DOI: 10.5220/0009940321592165

in Bibtex Style

@conference{icri18,
author={Dame Trully Gultom and Sumaryo Gitosaputro},
title={The Role of Extension Workerss in the Development of Agriculture Information Network through Cyber Extension in Lampung Province},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Recent Innovations - Volume 1: ICRI,},
year={2018},
pages={2159-2165},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0009940321592165},
isbn={978-989-758-458-9},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Recent Innovations - Volume 1: ICRI,
TI - The Role of Extension Workerss in the Development of Agriculture Information Network through Cyber Extension in Lampung Province
SN - 978-989-758-458-9
AU - Gultom D.
AU - Gitosaputro S.
PY - 2018
SP - 2159
EP - 2165
DO - 10.5220/0009940321592165