Factors Influencing Smallholder Farmer’s Decision to Adopt Artificial Insemination as A Cattle Reproduction Technology in Yogyakarta

Abstract

Artificial Insemination (AI) for reproduction technology has been promoted as a national policy to increase the productivity and improve the genetic quality of cattle. Recently, Government had launched the new national policy of SIWAB (Sapi Indukan Wajib Bunting) which encourages to a cow to be pregnant at farmer level. In this policy, AI program will be the backbone for a massive and efficient reproduction at farm. However, with the dominant small-scale mixed cattle farming practice in Indonesia, information on how smallholder farmers decide to adopt AI technology instead of natural breeding should be provided. This paper aims to determine the influence factors of farmer’s decision to adopt the AI for their cattle. A cross-sectional survey was conducted by involving 188 smallholder farmers who are practicing mixed crops and livestock farming in Yogyakarta. Decision to adopt the technology was coded as binary dependent variable that will be analyzed by applying Logit regression. The results show that the smallholder decision on adopting AI is influenced by the cattle ownership, the membership of farmer’s group, the knowledge of the technology’s utility, and the active seeking of the relevant information about the technology. Prior to decision, the household resources such as the cattle ownership are considered as a farmers’ constraint in adopting the AI. Moreover, smallholders require the prior knowledge about the technology which can drive to better understanding about the technology’s utility.