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The aims of this study were to portrait
and understand a communication model
for farmer community empowerment in
the field and development efforts for the
success of the farming community in the
future. This study use constructivistic
qualitative-interpretive paradigm. By
understanding the phenomena that occur
in the communication process in Lestari
Makmur mushroom farmer group,
identify important categories and construct
as a portrait communication
model. Based on the portrait of communication
model, researchers tried to find
alternative communication model for the
future successfully of the farmer groups.
This study has found an early model,
which describes a communication model
of mushroom farmer community empowerment
that tend to be authoritarian. The leader of the farmer groups
dominate in many things. It has been found two alternative community
empowerment communication model: 1) Communication model of farmer
community empowerment with the professional assistance, 2) Communication
model of farmer community empowerment with democratic leadership.
It was concluded that the communication model of empowerment should be
directed at the professional assistance, and for the future sustainability of the
group, they are directed at the communication model with democratic
leadership. It is important to suggest to the farmer groups about the substantive
of community empowerment, to understand on a mushroom farmer
groups that responsibility is not only the cultivation of course, there are still
many things to be done as a group of farmers to be more advanced in the
future.
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