*2.1. Population and Sample*

The study population comprised 78 people from all villages in the North Buton Regency. A total of 10 villages were selected randomly as samples distributed across six sub-districts. This size was based on Byrne (2010), stating that the typical sample size in SEM studies is 12% of the total population. This study randomly took 10 farmers of each village, resulting in 100 respondents.
