THE EFFECT OF INDIVIDUAL CAPABILITY AND MOTIVATION ON FARMER INSTITUTIONAL SUSTAINABILITY IN THE HIGHLANDS: EVIDENCE FROM GOWA, INDONESIA

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Akbar AKBAR
Ardi RUMALLANG
Riskasari RISKASARI
Muh AL Aswar RUSMAN
Muh MULYADI
Muh Arief ALAMSYAH

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Farmer institutions are one of the important instruments in empowering farmers in agribusiness development in highland areas in Indonesia. In fact, not all existing farmer institutions can survive and exist sustainably. Institutional sustainability is the ability to maintain farmer institutions as an organizational forum to run optimally in accordance with its role and function. Therefore, the research objective is to examine the influence of individual capability and individual motivation through leadership on the sustainability of farmers' institutions in the highlands. This research was conducted in the highland areas of Tinggimoncong and Tombolopao Subdistricts, Gowa Regency, South Sulawesi Province, Indonesia. The sample selection was carried out by simple randomization by taking 10% of the total population so that the number of samples used in this study was 214 respondents. Furthermore, to collect information on the effects of individual capability and individual motivation on the sustainability of farmers' institutions in the highland area, the analysis technique of Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) was analyzed. The results show that individual capability has a direct influence on institutional sustainability in highland areas, with a statistically significant and positive correlation. Meanwhile, individual motivation has no direct effect on institutional sustainability. Furthermore, leadership has a partial mediation effect between individual capability and institutional sustainability of farmers and has a full mediation effect between individual motivation and institutional sustainability of farmers in the highlands.

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AKBAR, A., RUMALLANG, A., RISKASARI, R., RUSMAN, M. A. A., MULYADI, M., & ALAMSYAH, M. A. (2024). THE EFFECT OF INDIVIDUAL CAPABILITY AND MOTIVATION ON FARMER INSTITUTIONAL SUSTAINABILITY IN THE HIGHLANDS: EVIDENCE FROM GOWA, INDONESIA. AgroLife Scientific Journal, 13(2), 18–26. https://doi.org/10.17930/AGL202422
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