Sustainable Dimensional Status Analysis in Dragon Fruits Agribusiness Development in Banyuwangi

Abstract

Dragon fruit is one of the leading commodities that has been able to provide high commercial profits and prospective to be developed. This research aimed to analyse the sustainability of the dragon fruit agribusiness development adopted in Banyuwangi regency. This research was conducted in two sub-districts namely Bangorejo and Pesanggaran located in Banyuwangi Regency. In addition, the research used Rap-dragon fruit through Multi-dimensional Scaling (MDS) to analyse sustainability into 33 attributes of 5 dimensions included ecological, economic, social, technological and institutional dimensions. Meanwhile, the result of the Multi-dimensional sustainability analysis of the Banyuwangi dragon fruit sustainability index was 57,50 included in the quite sustainable category. While the result of the sustainability index analysis for the five dimensions are 52,86 (ecology); 45,19 (economic); 57,13 (social); 70,24 (technology); 56,22 (institution). The sustainability of dragon fruit in each dimension has a different sustainability index so that different policies are needed to evaluate the sustainability of dragon fruit in Banyuwangi.