DECISION MAKING IN THE UTILIZATION OF LIVESTOCK MANURE WASTE

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to determine the factors associated with farmer decision making in processing livestock manure into biogas. This research uses quantitative methods with data analysis techniques using the rank spearman. The sample used in this study were 30 farmers, all of whom were members of two farmer groups in Japara Village Kuningan Regency. All the characteristics of innovation relate to decision making. Relative advantage, compability, triability and observability has a low relationship with decision making for biogas production with an average correlation coefficient below 0.2. Among all characteristics of innovation that are most closely related to decision making is complexity with coefficient correlation is 0,59. In fact, people feel that biogas technology is not easy to put into practice and people are worried that there are other dangers from biogas technology such as explosions because the tools used to process livestock waste into biogas are still very simple.