Technology Adoption of Farmers to Master TreeGrowers Training Program in Gunungkidul District

Master TreeGrowers program is a training program for cultivation and marketing of forestplants. The Master TreeGrowers program is held to train the forest farmers to be more skilled and helps the forest farmers to manage their forest better than before as well as to increase the economic value of their forest products. This research is held in Playen, Nglipar, and Girisubo Sub-districts, Gunungkidul Regency. The aims of this research are: (1) Analyzing the farmers’ adoption rate of Master TreeGrowers technology in Gunungkidul Regency and (2) Analyzing of factors that influence the farmers’ adoption rate of Master TreeGrowers technology in Gunungkidul Regency. A descriptive method with a quantitative approach is used in this research. This research took 60 samples of the forest farmers with random sampling in Playen Sub-district, Nglipar Sub-dsitrict, Girisubo Sub-district. The samples consist of 30 persons of female farmers and 30 persons of male farmers that take part in Master TreeGrowers Training Program. This research used the proportion test and multiple linear regression method. The result of this research shows that the female farmers adoption rate of Master TreeGrowers technology in Gunungkidul Regency is classified as rare with percentage of 33,32%. The male farmers adoption rate of Master TreeGrowers technology in Gunungkidul Regency is classified as medium stage with percentage of 42,07%. The factors that significantly influence the farmers adoption rate of Master TreeGrowers technology in Gunungkidul Regency is gender type, the farmer perception of Master TreeGrowers program, the role of village apparatus, and the intensity of extension program that followed by farmers.