Household Perception of Urban Farming for Environmental Coastal Area HouseholdB (Case Study District Gresik)

Abstract

This study discusses the perception of households in urban farming for environmental sustainability coastal area household, especially coastal area in the District Gresik. This type of research is descriptive sources. The rate of urban population growth will cause environmental problems, ranging from land conversion to the environmental degradation caused by pollution and trash. This happens especially to the district of Gresik, because getting into residential and industrial areas. Urban farming is an activity utilizing the open spaces which are not as productive as empty land in urban areas into productive plantations through alternative activities by the people of the city to improve the quality and quantity of open space in big cities. This effort is expected to help solve the problem of improving environmental (ecological), improving the aesthetics of the narrow land or an empty area, and to improve the economic and sociological value for society. Gresik has Urban Farming area, the area of the source of agricultural and food diversity is quite high. Some important commodity support food availability and consumption are emerging in here, for example for food crops. In this research, the sample collection method using Proportionate stratified random sampling method as many as 30 people who used to answer this research. In this study are households residing in urban farming locations exactly in coastal area in the Sub-district Gresik and District Gresik. The public perception of urban farming in the district of Gresik and Kebomas the vast majority of households agreed that urban farming is able to cope with environmental problems and sustainable development that can be developed by local governments. Public perception of the use of urban farming on the surrounding environment and the District of Gresik most coastal area households also agreed on the function and benefits of urban farming. Households’ perception of the appropriateness of urban farming households largely agreed on the prevention, alleviation and cessation efforts. Household perceptions of the characteristics of urban farming area in accordance with the vast majority of households agreed.