The Influence of Social Capital on Vegetable Farmer Productivity (Case Study on a Balinese Farmer Group, Waterfall Village, Medan Marelan District, Medan City)

Abstract

This study aims to determine the description of the social capital of vegetable farmers in the Bali Farmers Group and to find out how social capital influence productivity of vegetable farmers in the Bali Farmers Group. The sampling method used purposive sampling with a sample of 32 vegetable farmers. The data collected is primary and secondary data. The data analysis method used is descriptive quantitative. Based on the results of the study, it is known that the description of the social capital of vegetable farmers in the Bali Farmers Group already exists and already attached to the farmers themselves the results of statistical tests for R2 variables of trust, participation, network and social norms have an influence of 55.1% on productivity variables while the remaining 44.9% is explained by other factors outside of this study.Then the variables of trust, participation, network and social norms together significantly affect the productivity of vegetable farmers in the Bali Farmer Group and furthermore that the variables of trust, participation have a significant positive effect, while the network and social norms variables have a significant negative effect.

Keywords: Social capital, trust, participation, social norms and productivity of vegetable farmers