摘要：Agricultural information is one of the most important factors of production and there is no doubt that this can lead to development. The effective integration of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) in the agricultural sector through cyber extension will lead to sustainable agriculture by providing timely and relevant agricultural information, which will enable farmers make informed decisions on farming to increase productivity. The objective of the research is to analyze the system of cyber extension mechanism supporting the vegetable farmer empowerment. ICT application in cyber extension implementation can greatly improve farmers’ accessibility to market information, commodity inputs, and consumer trends which positively impact on the quality and the quantity of their produce. Information on marketing, new plant and animal management practice, pest and diseases, transport availability, new marketing opportunities and market prices of farm input and output is very important to an efficient and productive economy. The analysis of cyber extension mechanism was conducted based on the characteristic of system are boundary, environment, input, output, process, storage, and interface. The synergy between the subsystems to each other is critical in the performance of the agricultural innovation process into outputs that benefit the other subsystems. In accordance with the characteristics of the cyber extension working system in the area was influent by the environment that produce output that is stored either permanently or temporarily. Interface is an element of the system to ensure the synergy among the subsystems within the system cyber extension working smoothly. Cyber extension is a communication method of agricultural innovation by using new communication media that integrates information technology tools to communicate information to the user faster. Therefore, analysis of the cyber extension system with the black box theory illustrates the system with attention to the desired output and the output is not desired. Mechanisms of maintenance and provision of relevant and timely input offset with socialization and assistance in the utilization of information technology for vegetable farmers in accessing information as needed is an effort to optimize the cyber extension utilization so that it can support the empowerment process of vegetable farmers.
关键词：cyber extension, communication, innovation, networking, agricultural information, system
