The most appropriate education for farmers as an adult is a participatory educational methods Andragogy or adult education, non formal,

with the learning process in a local farm. Principles provide the foundation that participatory agricultural extension system in development and agribusiness involve farmers and other agribusiness from planning, execution, control, up to evaluation. The approach in farmer education must begin with awareness education (konsientisasi), a method of learning from experience (experential learning). Awareness education model educational model where farmers are undergoing a learning process that allows them to experience for themselves, realize and then question the reality of his life (a problem or situation). Educational model that works for farmers, among others: a study of farmers, field schools, farmers and container business study. A. Introduction. An overview of farmers in Indonesia are small farmers (landless) is simple, capital poor, landless (or have no land at all), and the less educated, tend to be silent, and powerless to complain. The helplessness of the situation, according to Soetomo (1997) is rooted in structural problems (systemic). In a social system, for example, farmers tend to be the element that relies entirely powerless by forces outside himself. Outside forces who take the largest share of economic surplus or value added production through activities or production systems that are not pro-farmer. They are: manufacturers of agricultural inputs (SAPROTAN), importer and distributor of chemical fertilizers, pesticides, and agricultural equipment and machinery, traders, bureaucrats and authorities at the regional and national level to take on the role of diversity. In fact, farmers have less access to capital, markets and technology, and farmer organizations are still weak (Bunch, 1991) In the era of globalization, the strength and sustainability of agricultural development measured toughness and the ability of farmers to manage natural resources. Independent farmers are farmers that are dynamically able to make optimum use of natural resources, labor, capital, and technologies on the physical environment as well as its place footing to improve welfare in a broad sense. This understanding includes the ability to overcome all the challenges, obstacles, threats, and harassment of the existence and preservation of natural resources. Farmers as an independent manager who is knowledgeable, skilled, competent and able to assess business opportunities make their own decisions to act and be able to constantly adapt to changes in globalization. Thus, independent farmers should have the five properties are: 1. Aggressive, suggests that farmers would not want to keep abreast of information, whether it comes to price, demand and supply as well as what types of commodities that benefit the effort in the future to compete and face the rush era of globalization. 2. Adaptive, farmers should be able to adjust to the changes, both natural changes and changes in demand for the commodity in the market. 3. Flexible, farmers have to be flexible in dealing with various forms of competition, both forms of competition towards positive or negative toward a form of competition. 4. Innovative, farmers must have the courage to try different kinds of agricultural development of new technologies to apply to be assessed according to the potential of the region, both in terms of economic, social and cultural order to obtain higher earnings in the business.

5. Productive, farmers must be able to utilize the factors of production in an efficient, effective, including the use of time to carry out various types of activities that are generating amid stiff competition. To overcome the helplessness of farmers in the era of globalization, and how to turn farmers into a formidable farmer can be realized through the development of agricultural education system for farmers, commonly called agricultural extension. According to Law no. 16/2006, agricultural extension is defined as the process of learning the main actors and businesses that are willing and able to help themselves in accessing information, technology, capital, and other sources in an effort to improve productivity, business efficiency and to improve the income and welfare of unity in the preservation of environmental functions life. Thus, farmers can be helped to help themselves, are educated in order to educate yourself. The road is believed to overcome the problems (impotence) and frees human farmers farmers out of poverty is through education. The question is what kind of education is needed to free farmers, humanizing and ultimately change her life situation. B. Farmers Educational Philosophy and Principles. Agricultural extension philosophy is to help people to help themselves, their families, and their communities. The most appropriate education for farmers as an adult is a participatory educational methods Andragogy or adult education, non formal, with the learning process in a local farm. Andragogy core teaching is that education is not just a transfer of raw information from teacher to student, but moving the learning activities in order to solve the problem. Andragogy terms that is widely used is the "facilitator" and "persons-source" instead of "teacher"; "facilitating learning" instead of "teaching"; "citizen-learning" instead of "students or" students "and so on ( Freire, 1985). Principles provide the foundation that participatory agricultural extension system in development and agribusiness involve farmers and other agribusiness from planning, execution, control, up to evaluation. Being involved is awareness and their willingness to come, participate actively, and be involved in any decision-making. The participatory approach provides advantages, among others: the people will be more energetic, committed, and more accountable when they control their own environment than outsiders (Daniel et al, 2006). As a non-formal educational activities, agricultural extension was implemented using the principles of adult education (Daniel et al, 2006), namely: 1. Learning voluntarily 2. Educational materials based on the needs of farmers 3. Farmers are able to learn, sangggup creative, and not conservative 4. Potentially, the desire, the ability, the ability to move forward already to the farmers, so that the wisdom, favorable atmosphere and facilities will create excitement farmers to beriktiar