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The 2 International Seminar of Science and Technology
“Accelerating Sustainable innovation towards Society 5.0”
ISST 2022 FST UT 2022
Universitas Terbuka
1 INTRODUCTION
Entrepreneurship is an important concern in the economy of a nation.
The progress or decline of a nation is determined by the presence of
entrepreneurs. Entrepreneurship is a driving force for the economic
growth of a nation. Casson et al., [1] mentions that entrepreneurship
and economic growth have a very close and positive relationship
where an increase in the number of entrepreneurs causes an increase
in a country's economic growth. Entrepreneurship is one of the main
things and as a force behind economic development. The agricultural
sector is still the mainstay of government programs to improve
people's welfare. Farmers as farm owners who make decisions about
changes or innovations that are recommended for their farming.
Furthermore, Mosher [3] reveals that farmers make decisions based
on the interests of their families and in the influence of their family
members on themselves, because of the family's dependence on
farming products, family members may pressure farmers to make
certain decisions or carry out certain techniques. This shows that the
decision-making process of farmers is not carried out by their own
thoughts, but there are factors that influence decisions on their
farming. Decision-making factors on the performance of their farms
are supported by internal and external factors. So, entrepreneurial
behaviour is needed so that farmers are motivated to increase the
quantity and quality of products produced from their farms [7].
Coffee is one of the trade commodities of the plantation sub-sector
that has the opportunity to be developed in the context of increasing
state income and increasing the income of entrepreneurs and farmers.
The development of coffee in Indonesia began in the 1960s, in the
form of smallholder plantations. Coffee is also one of the eight main
plantation commodities which has a large area and is a very promising
export commodity, where only two types of coffee are widely
cultivated, namely Robusta coffee which controls the majority of coffee
growing in Indonesia and Arabica coffee. As one of the important
export commodities, coffee is expected to be able to provide added
value to foreign exchange earnings both for the country in general and

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