What is the Role of Motivation in Helping Rice Farmers Deal with Problems of Farm Business Performance and Welfare?

Abstract

This study discusses the role of motivation within farmers in supporting rice farmers to continue to improve the performance of farming so as to improve the welfare of rice farmers in the midst of many problems related to supporting the production process in the form of production facilities and facilities and extreme climate factors as a result of el nino storms that cause extreme weather that hit Bali Province, especially Tabanan District. Extreme weather that makes hot temperatures that threaten the occurrence of drought on rice farms and also has an effect on the health of rice farmers as farming business actors. This should get a fairly serious handling in terms of how to motivate themselves as farmers in order to continue to improve the ability and farming techniques in improving the performance of farming. Improved farming performance will certainly be able to increase production yields that lead to an increase in income so that the welfare of rice farmers also increased. The rationale behind the selection of Tabanan Regency in the Bali Province as the research site lies in its distinction as possessing the most expansive rice plantation area among the eight regencies/cities within Bali Province. Additionally, Tabanan Regency holds the prestigious designation of being recognized as the primary granary of Bali Province. Employing a quantitative methodology, this study adopts a questionnaire-based approach. Furthermore, the analysis framework utilized is SEM-PLS (Structural Equation Modelling Partial Least Square), involving a cohort of 167 respondents. The empirical results gleaned from this investigation indicate that the performance of farms serves as a mediating factor in the relationship between farmers' motivation and their welfare within the rice farming community of Tabanan Regency.