Abstract:
The objective of the study is to determine the perception of the peasant community about the management of land without burning in the North Ulin Platform. The benefits of the research are to increase the awareness of the peasant community on the management of forests without burning so that the level of the Kalimantan peat swamp forest fires can be minimized. The use of new techniques for land-clearing processes that are environmentally friendly is very necessary. One of them is land management with no-burn techniques, namely by cutting, cutting and stacking the results of clearing land around agricultural land without burning land. The study uses interwiew to 40 respondents, the determination of respondents using purposive sampling method with an intensity of 5%. Data analysis using tabulation analysis and Chi-Square test methods. Data analysis relates public perception to 3 parameters, namely the respondent's education level, income level and length of stay using the Chi-square method. It old be seen that the relationship between the three indicators about respondents' knowledge related to land management without burning was not related to their level of education, income level or because of the influence of length of stay. Farmers in the Ulin Utara Foundation know and understand about land clearing without burning. The perception of the peasant community about clearing land without burning was: 12.5% refers to the making of field boundaries, 60% refers to the felling and logging and 27.5% refers to revocation and rake. The perception of the peasant community about the management of land without burning was strongly influenced by the level of education at the level of 5%
