STRATEGI PENGEMBANGAN TANAMAN KEDELAI UNTUK PEMBERDAYAAN EKONOMI RAKYAT DI KABUPATEN KEEROM PROVINSI PAPUA

Abstract

This study aimed to analyze the internal and external factors that influenced the soybean development strategy in Keerom Regency (Papua). soybean-farmers and stakeholders in 20 less-developed villages, and secondary data on period of 1997−2010 were the sample. The results revealed that the soybeans local-farming had a great financial prospect. The high productivity and its return to the farmers had allowed some proposed development strategies to improve the local soybean production and its product processing indus-tries. The unfair agricultural trading system, cheaper imported soybean, and unstable fertilizer prices were some of the threats that must be addressed.