BONEVANTURA BASA WEJAK Pengarang Ir. Abdul Kadir Djaelani, MP Dosen Pembimbing 1 Donatus Kontur, SP., MP Dosen Pembimbing 2

The Level of Famers’ Knowledge of the Technique of Gathering the Top of Robusta Coffe Plants with the Demonstration Method in Baolangu Village Nubatukan District Lembata Regency Bonevantura Basa Wejak¹, Ir. Abdul Kadir Djaelani, MP², Donatus Kantur, SP., MP³ The study entitled “The Level of Famers Knowledge of the Technique of Gathering the Top of Robusta Coffe Plants with the Demonstration Method in Baolangu Village, Nubatukan District, Lembata Regency” was conducted on 26 june 2020 to 26 july 2020. This study aims to identify farmers with the robusta coffee shoot grafting technique. With the demonstration method. The sample of this study was all members of the Petik Pileh farmers’ group, totalling 20 pople who were determinet using the census metod. Data were collected using a questionnaire method (questionnaire) correlation analisis of the sperman rank. The result showed that farmers’ koowledge with counselling using demonstration methods was in thr haig category was 2,73 the unders standing indicator in the haig category is 2,48 and the indicator applies to the haig category 2,59 while the results of the research from the sperman rank correlation analysis show that the seven external internal factors that have tvhe strongest relationship with farmers’ knowledge are the caracterstics of the technologi whith a spermans’rho value of (0.665 vii ** ) an the rank spermans correlation analysis. From the seven external internal factors, it is also knownledge namely access to information, where the information, access factor has a spermans’ rho value of -0.102. Keywords: knowledge, farmers, top grafting, robusta coffe plant