Abstrak/Abstract |
The national development strategy which emphasizes agricultural development basically has the
direction that agribusiness and agro-industry development is the most crucial effort to achieve a
number of objectives, i.e. promoting the emergence of new agricultural industries; creating a resilient, efficient restaurants, hotels, food processing industries as well as fried shallot industries. Along with the growth of these industries, the demand for shallots tends to increase in
the following years. An increase in domestic shallots must be accompanied by an increase in domestic production, both in quality and in quantity by intensification and extensification. Shallot in Indonesia has a quite high and flexible agricultural structure; creating added values,
increasing foreign exchange, creating employment opportunities, and increasing income (Soekartawi 2001). One agricultural sub-sector that has a quite high contribution is horticultural commodities which include fruits, vegetables, ornamental plants, and medicinal plants. Shallot (Allium ascalonicum L) is one of the leading vegetable commodities intensively cultivated by farmers for a long time, and this has a large market opportunity in the agribusiness sector, making it a source of income and employment opportunities that production potential, evident by shallot production which
had a tendency to increase from 2012 to 2016 and continued to increase. In 2012 the harvested area was 99,519 ha and the production was 964.195 tons, in 2013 the harvested area was 98,937 ha and the production was 1,010,773 tons, in 2015 the harvested area was 120,704 ha and the production was 1,233,984 tons, in 2015 the harvested area was 122,126 ha and the production was 1,229,184 tons, in 2016 the harvested area and production were at the highest level, i.e. 149,635 ha and 1,446,860 tons (BPS and Directorate has a significant contribution to economic development.
Community’s consumption of shallots continues to increase, even at the present time, shallots are needed not only to meet household needs but also to supply |