THE UTILIZATION OF LEISURE TIME OF CORN FARMER HOUSEHOLD IN GORONTALO, INDONESIA

This study aims to describe free time for corn farmer households and their use for productive activities and assess the utilization of potential working days of corn farmer households. It carried this research out in Gorontalo Province in 2019. The method used in this study was a survey method which was an empirical data collection based on questionnaires and interviews. This activity comprised secondary data surveys and primary data surveys. For sampling techniques used multistage purposive random sampling, ranging from sample districts, sub-districts, villages to respondent farmers. They sampled determination of respondents with a sample of 181 corn farmers. Data analysis used descriptive statistical analysis techniques by the presentation of tables, ratios and percentages. The results showed that corn farmers owned the leisure time in one planting season 147 days which for productive activities in the agricultural sector by 54.97%, non-agricultural 11.97%, while the remaining 33.06% free time existing is not used. Meanwhile, Corn farmer households have a potential number of workdays 340 days, with a distribution of 56.76% which allocated to corn farming, 28.94% allocated to productive activities for farming outside of corn, 5.18% allocated to productive activities outside the agricultural sector and the remaining 14.29% is not used