Kendala Sosial Ekonomi Peralihan Jenis Tanaman Pertanian pada Petani yang Melakukan Sistem di Verifikasi di Lahan Karet dengan Tanaman Nilam (Desa Sinabongan, Kecamatan Dolok, Kabupaten Padang Lawas Utara)

Abstract

Meeting the needs is one reason farmers to find and try any way that can help in the family economy in order to obtain a decent life. Farmers often undertake a wide range of land use systems and plant species applied by farmers in a single land to be more productive. Included in the selection of types of plants that will be maintained by farmers. The financial considerations of the types of crops they will cultivate seem to be number one for farmers. However, it is not uncommon for farmer decision-making in the diversion of agricultural crops not far from the name of problems, constraints, and limitations, which can have an impact on the farmer's business, so that it will also affect the socio-economic well-being of farmers. So the goal of this study is to see an overview of the socio-economic constraints of the transition types of crops on farmers who diversify farm systems rubber with patchouli.The method used in this research is descriptive qualitative research methods. This research was conducted in Sinabongan Village, Dolok District, North Padang Lawas Regency. The unit of analysis in this study is information in the form of qualitative narratives obtained from indepth interviews, participant observation and documentation related to socio-economic constraints on the function of agricultural crops. The results showed that the socio-economic constraints of farmers do not switch the types of agricultural crops because they see the type of plant used as the main crop, whether old plant species or young plant species, age, soil fertility, land, pests, plant diseases, habits and attitudes Working from Farmers to one type of plant, the existence of price uncertainty. Environmental conditions and circumstances that make farmers prefer to keep the rubber plant as an intensive plant in the field and make patchouli so wide in newly opened land. The farmer's behavior, considered rational by farmers and safer for family needs, and old age investment.