Relationship of Rice Farming Income with Socio-Economic Characteristics of Farmers

Characteristics are ways of thinking and behavior that characterize each individual to live and work together in a family environment and social community. The purpose of the study was to analyze the relationship between rice farming income and socio-economic characteristics of farmers. The research method used is the survey method. The Data used in this study is the primary data sourced from respondents obtained through interviews using questionnaires, which consists of data on social factors, namely; age of farmers, farmers ' education, farming experience, and the number of family dependents, as well as data on economic factors, namely: land area and farming capital. While the secondary data is research supporting data sourced from the Department of Agriculture and other stakeholders. Determination of the location of the study using purposive sampling method and for sampling of research respondents using simple random sampling method as many as 30 rice farmers. The data analysis used is Pearson Correlation analysis. The results showed that: age has a positive relationship that is not significant with income, level of Education has a positive relationship that is not significant with income, farming experience has a positive relationship that is significant with income, the number of family dependents has a positive relationship that is not significant with income, land area has a positive relationship that is very significant with income, and capital has a positive relationship that is very significant with the income of farmers in rice farming.