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Role of Liurai and ritual Lisan on adoption vegetables farming through farmer field school in Timor-Leste
Thesis Abstract:
The objectives of the study were to: (1) understand the effects of external factors of farmers (role of Liurai, Lisan, agriculture extension, and land area) and internal factors of farmers (age, formal education and non-formal education, motivation, perception for market, and attitude of farmers to innovation) on farmers’ activeness in following farmer field school (FFS) activities in Subdistritu Manatuto and Lospalos; and (2) explain the effects of farmers’ activeness in following FFS activities on innovation adoption level of vegetables farming.
The study used survey method. Respondents were farmers who follow farmer field school in Subdistritu Manatuto and Lospalos taken randomly from 20 administrators and 80 members of the group. Variables used in this research were external factors of farmers (role of Liurai, Lisan Adat, roles of farming extension, and land area) and internal factors (age of farmers, formal and informal education of farmers, perception of farmers for market, attitude of farmers to innovation, and motivation of farmers), and activeness variables of farmers in following FFS activities in Subdistritu Manatuto and Lospalos.
Results of the analysis indicated that two internal factors, namely: formal and informal education, really affected the activeness of farmers with significant values of 0.034 for formal education and 0.001 for non-formal education. The external factors of farmers (i.e., role of Liurai) really affected activeness of farmers with significant value of .016. Furthermore, activeness variables of farmers also really affected the level of vegetables farming innovation adoption through FFS in Subdistritu Manatuto and Lospalos with significant rate of .001.