The Improvement of Local Citrus’ Competitiveness to Strengthen the Rural Community Economy

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10.2991/iccd-19.2019.143How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Local citrus competitiveness, comparative and competitive advantages

Abstract

The competitiveness of local citrus from rural communities is generally low, in which it results in a weak economic community. The efforts to increase the competitiveness of local citrus was through improving the cultivation technology, market structure, and industrial structure, and demand conditions for local citrus. Those efforts would strengthen the economics community.The objective of this study was to calculate the value of competitiveness of local citrus for rural communities. The location was in East Java which includes Banyuwangi, Tulungagung, and Magetan. The respondents were 280 people. The data collections utilized Participatory Rural Appraisal (PRA), Focus Group Discussion (FGD) methods, Rapid Rural Appraisal (RRA) method, andIn-depth interview and Survey. This study employed quantitative data analysis. Related to the competitiveness of local citrus, the researchers conducted an analysis of comparative and competitive advantages by calculating the value of DRCR (Domestic Resources Cost Ratio) and PCR (Private Cost Ratio).The results revealed that the competitive and comparative competitiveness of the local citrus of the Siem tangerine was high as indicated by the PCR value: 0.4261 and the DRCR value: 0.4397. Even though the competitive and comparative competitiveness is high, the average profit was IDR. 1,483,742 / ha / month. It contributed to the family revenue 48.05%. There were six production facilities needed to increase the competitiveness of local citrus. They were human resources, technology, capital, raw materials, machinery, and markets.

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© 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Teguh Hari Santosa
AU  - Mochammad Chabib Is
AU  - Henik Prayuginingsih
PY  - 2019/10
DA  - 2019/10
TI  - The Improvement of Local Citrus’ Competitiveness to Strengthen the Rural Community Economy
BT  - Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Community Development (ICCD 2019)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 547
EP  - 549
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/iccd-19.2019.143
DO  - 10.2991/iccd-19.2019.143
ID  - Santosa2019/10
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