Kasman Jaya, Muhammad Ardi, Sylvia Sjam, Dan Gufran Darma Dirawan
This study aims to determine the direct effect of EBP knowledge, knowledge of pesticides, environmental knowledge and attitudes toward behavior farmers in ecosystem-based pest control plant in Sigi District. The type of study is a survey and ex-post facto correlational. The sample in this study is a farmer the village Olobojo Soulowe Biromaru in Sigi District and it was randomly selected 205 people onion farmers. Data were collected by questionnaire and analyzed by multivariate causal Eqution Structural Model (SEM). The research proves that the behavior of farmers in pest control respectively directly influenced positively by environmental knowledge and attitudes EBP. Moreover positive attitude of farmers directly affected by the EBP knowledge and knowledge of the environment. Farmer behavior in ecosystem-based pest control is not influenced indirectly by EBP knowledge, knowledge of pesticides and environmental knowledge through IPM attitude. These findings indicate that the variable environmental knowledge and attitude variables is the decisive factor in the controlling of farmers' behavior-based pest control or an integrated ecosystem. By increasing knowledge of farmers can increased onion farmer behavior in ecosystem-based pest control model without having to increase the IPM attitude first. © Serials Publications.
P.G. Program, Makassar State University, Indonesia; Agriculture Faculty, Hasanuddin University of Makassar, Indonesia
