INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SOCIAL SCIENCES AND MANAGEMENT RESEARCH (IJSSMR )

E-ISSN 2545-5303
P-ISSN 2695-2203
VOL. 3 NO. 6 2017


The Empowerment of Small-Scale Beef Cattle Farmer Households: Case Studies of Csr Ptpn Xii Program, East Java, Indonesia

Sad Likah; Soemanto; D T Kartono; A. Ratriyanto


Abstract


This study aims at determining the empowerment of small-scale farmer as the participant of CSR PTPN XII program. The study used qualitative approach with case study strategy. The selection of the subjects was done through the combination of purposive and snowball sampling methods. Based on the result, there are two types of small-scale farmer empowerment namely innovative and conventional empowerment types. The innovative household has the characteristics of high accessibility toward human assets, being responsive to innovations, and using economic calculations as a consideration in decision making. Innovative household generally has a high empowerment rate, as it is shown by its balance accessibility toward all household assets. On the contrary, conventional household tends to have a low empowerment rate for it has low accessibility toward human assets as well, and it affects the accessibility toward all assets. There is a household which owns low human assets, but it has a high social asset between these two household types. This type of household tends to be responsive toward innovations.





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