Identifying Agribusiness Institutions and their Role in Increasing Cocoa Production: Evidence from Polewali Mandar, Indonesia

Abstract

Polewali Mandar Regency is one of the cocoa producers in West Sulawesi Province whose production has tended to decline in the last five years. The study aims to identify agribusiness institutions and their role in increasing cocoa production. The study employed the Interpretative Structural Modeling (ISM) method. The results showed that there were 12 institutions that played a role in the development of cocoa agribusiness. The key institutions could be expected to improve cocoa production were corporate institutions, non-governmental organizations and farmer groups. Therefore, government responsible and private institutions must carry out their respective roles in order to increase farmers' interest in developing their cocoa production.