Factors contributing farmers’ persistence in farming career: Grounded theory study
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This study starting by using a rapid rural appraisal technique for selecting 4 villages under different economic level as represent the study site. The grounded theory study method for data collection and analysis. This study found grounded theory that, the causes why farm household (FHH) still remain in farming career—whether who doing only farming as a full-time career or only one career, who doing farming coupled with other employed or non-employed occupation—they are all caused following factors: (a) in respect of individuality: most age is in the middle-to-old range, they are not highly education level, and they are skilled in farming, (b) in respect of family: gratitude to the parent or ascendants and the family tie, marriage to one who descendant farming family, owning the farmland or inheriting it from parent or ancestors, earning income from farming that is sufficient to their FHH living, earning income from other careers that support farming and living of the FHH, and having budget and being able to access to source of financing for farming, (c) in respect of social: having the marketing place for selling farm products, having neighbors who do similar farming activity, owning enough manpower or machine in farming or being able to hire others, having public infrastructures convenient: electricity and communication and transportation, and (d) in respect of agriculture resources: having farmland that is suitable for farming, having water resources for farming throughout the year. Therefore, to promote farmer contributing to persistence in farming career, the concerned authority should launch the policy ponder based on the state of the factors above mentioned. However, this finding is grounded theory, so that, before the promotion project was actually an implementation to farmer should be understanding the details of the factors contributing farmers’ persistence in farming career that is suitable for socio-economic contexts of each target area.
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