The implication of farmers’ behavior to the household economic income through economic decision (The study of farmers’ household in minahasa regency)

Abstract

This research is intended to identify, analyze, and theoretically and empirically explain: the effect of farmers’ behavior and farmers’ economic decision; the effect of farmers’ behavior with farmers’ household income; farmers’ economic decision with farmers’ household income; and farmers’ behavior with farmers’ household income through farmers’ economic decision.This research is an explanation (explanatory research), which explain the causal relationship among the research variables by the testing of hypothesis. The population in this research is farmers’ household in Minahasa regency. With samples of this research are 120 respondents. Purposive sampling is used to collect the data and the data analysis of this research using path analysis. The results of the research showed that: farmers’ behavior directly and significantly effect to the economic decision. farmers’ behavior directly effect to farmers household income; economic decision is directly and significantly effect to the farmers household income; farmers behavior is indirectly and significantly to the farmers household with economic decision as intervening variable.