The lack of efforts in promoting conservation technologies to farming communities in the last few decades made the area of critical land, particularly over Java Island, increased by 28.33% during 2009–2014. Another cause of this condition is the unsatisfactory results of the existing land management techniques. The decision to conserve degraded lands should be supported by environmental awareness among the farmers. This study aims to determine (1) the level of environmental awareness and the motivation of farmers to conserve critical lands, (2) the motivation of farmers to adopt conservation techniques, and (3) the effect of environmental awareness on motivation in adopting conservation techniques in three agro-ecological zones, i.e., the highlands, lowlands, and coastal areas. The number of respondents was 600 farmers with an equal number of samples for each zone. The analytical tools used were the crosstab, Spearman correlation, and the structural equation modeling (SEM). The first key finding is that the agro-ecological zone difference determined the level of environmental awareness and farmers’ motivation to implement conservation. The second key result is that the coastal area farmers had higher motivations to adopt conservation techniques than the other two agro-ecological zones. We also observe that the farmers who had a high level of environmental awareness will have a strong motivation to adopt conservation techniques. Overall, providing highland farmers with an understanding and practical training on conservation is essential to increase their conservation motivation that has been possessed and implemented by most of the coastal and lowland farmers.

在过去的几十年里，由于缺乏向农业社区推广保护技术的努力，关键土地的面积，特别是爪哇岛，在 2009-2014 年期间增加了 28.33%。造成这种情况的另一个原因是现有土地管理技术的效果不理想。保护退化土地的决定应该得到农民的环境意识的支持。本研究旨在确定 (1) 农民保护关键土地的环境意识水平和动机，(2) 农民采用保护技术的动机，以及 (3) 环境意识对采用保护技术的动机的影响在三个农业生态区，即高地、低地和沿海地区。受访者的数量是 600 名农民，每个区域的样本数量相同。使用的分析工具是交叉表、Spearman 相关性和结构方程模型 (SEM)。第一个关键发现是，农业生态区差异决定了环境意识水平和农民实施保护的积极性。第二个关键结果是沿海地区农民采用保护技术的动机高于其他两个农业生态区。我们还观察到，具有较高环保意识的农民将有强烈的动机采用保护技术。全面的，