| dc.description.abstract | Agricultural extension workers are government officers tasked with providing guidance, direction, and technical information to farmers in the field, acting as a bridge between the government and farmers, helping to increase productivity and quality of agricultural products with the aim of improving farmer welfare. However, farmers as recipients of extension worker performance services are less satisfied with the results of their work, seen from the level of farmer productivity that has decreased in the last five years, due to several factors suspected to be the cause, namely the lack of human resources/limited number of extension workers, extension workers are less active in carrying out field visits, inadequate facilities and infrastructure/assistance to farmers.
This study aims to describe in detail the effect of the performance of agricultural extension workers on the level of farmer satisfaction in Lubuk Barumun District, Padang Lawas Regency. This research method uses a quantitative descriptive approach. Data collection was carried out by distributing questionnaires using simple random sampling techniques to 96 farmers as research respondents. Validity test using product moment technique, questionnaire reliability using Cronbanch Alpha formula, data analysis with the help of IBM SPSS Statistic 25 program.
The results of the study showed that there was a positive and significant influence between the performance of agricultural extension workers on farmer satisfaction in Lubuk Barumun sub-district, as evidenced by the results of the partial significance test (t-test) of 5.132 and the t-table value of 1.661 with a significance of 0.000> 0.005. agricultural extension worker performance variables include work quality, work quantity, punctuality which are in the fairly high category of 32.84% with the dimensions of farmer satisfaction variables including conformity to expectations, interest in returning, willingness to recommend being in the fairly high category as evidenced by the results of respondents' answers from the questionnaire distributed by 32.17%. The value of the R Square determinant test is 0.422 which shows the magnitude of the influence of the performance of extension workers on farmer satisfaction with the results of the extension worker's work of 42.2% with the remaining 60.7% influenced by other variables outside this study. supervision is needed in the form of reprimands, criticisms, suggestions to extension workers to improve the performance of extension workers and farmer satisfaction. | en_US |
