THE PERCEPTION OF FISH FARMER TOWARD UTILIZATION OF EX QUARRY SAND LAND FOR AQUACULTURE BUSSINESS AT UJUNGBATU VILLAGE UJUNGBATU DISTRICT ROKAN HULU REGENCY RIAU PROVINCE

Abstract

This research was conduted on September 2015 in the Ujungbatu Village,
District of Ujungbatu that located in Regent of RokanHulu Riau Province. This
research was determined purposively with survey method. The respondents was
taken by census amounting to 12 people. The purpose of this researchwere1)to
knowfish farmers characteristics in the Ujungbatu Village, 2) to know perceptions
of fish farmer of ex quarry sand land utilization for aquaculture business, 3) and to
know relationship fish farmer characteristics between perception of fish farmer
the ex quarry sand land utilization used the Spearman Rank Correlation
Coefficienttest.
The results of this research indicated that the fish farmer perceptions of the
ex quarry sand land utilization as a whole was in the category of "Good Enough"
in the middle categories, with a score of 2.065. Internal factors which have
significant affect to respondents perception in Ujungbatu Village are age and
education and did not have significant affect to respondents perception are
income, family members, and experience of aquaculture bussiness.
The results relationship between characteristics to perception, that are :
correlation between age to fish farmer perceptions is very significant (0,040≤ rs,),
correlation between education to fish farmer perceptions is very significant
(0,032≤ rs,), correlation between family members is not significant (0,521 > rs),
correlation between income to fish farmer perceptions is not significant (0,375 >
rs), and correlation between experience of aquaculture bussiness to fish farmer
perceptions is very significant (0,056 ≤ rs).
Keywords:Perception, Ujungbatu Village, Ex quarry sand