Analisis Keunggulan Komparatif Usahatani Bawang Merah Di Desa Ponjanan Barat, Kecamatan Batumarmar, Kabupaten Pamekasan

Abstract

This research was conducted to determine economic advantage and the level of comparative advantage of shallot farming. Therefore, the objectives of this research are to analyze the economic shallot farming, comparative advantage and analyze the sensitivity level of comparative advantage of shallot farming when there is a change of variables in research location. The analysis method that used the economic analysis, DRC (Domestic Resource Cost) and sensitivity analysis. The result of this research said that shallot farming economically has profit and has the comparative advantage. Shallot farming using domestic resources can save foreign exchange nations of US $ 1 with their resources domestic US $ 0,929. The results of sensitivity analysis said that when price increase occur seeds of 25% so will cause loss of the comparative advantage. Increase of output production to 78% and weakening the rupiah to 5%, have had a positive impact (decreasing of comparative advantage). The increase of prices seeds, increase of output production, and weakening the rupiah to dollar are together had a positive impact (increase the rate of the comparative advantage).