Analisis Produksi dan Rantai Pemasaran Jagung di Kabupaten Minahasa Selatan Provinsi Sulawesi Utara

Analyses of Maize Production and Market Chain in South Minahasa District North Sulawesi Province.Maize demand continues to rise in line with the increasing demand for food, feed and industrials. Export opportunities have also increased due to major producing countries of maize restricting their export volumes. This study aimed to 1) analyse the development of maize plantation area 2) analyse the farmers'characteristics and maize farming, 3) estimate the various factors affecting maize production and 4) analyse market chain, market margin and the farmer's share. The data were collected in September 2015 in South Minahasa district, South North province. Types of data collected were primary and secondary data. Primary data were obtained through a survey to 30 maize farmers while secondary data were gathered from Statistics Bureau, research results, and other data. Data were analysed using multiple linear regression, production trend, B/C and R/C for financial analysis, market channel analysis, market margin and the farmer's share. The results showed that 1) the average productivity of maize within the last five years (2010-2014) was 3.69 t/ha though Bisi-2 variety has a potential yield by 6.9 t/ha, 2) Characteristics of farmers such age, education level, dependents and farming experience can be a good investment to develop farming, 3) The financial analysis obtained B/C by 1.01 and R/C by 2.01, 4) Results of coefficients test, t-test or a probability value sig indicated that t count of urea and SP-36 were 2.513 and 2.293 respectively or they significantly affected maize production at α5% while other factors had no a significant effect on maize production and 5) There were 2 existing marketing channels. Channels I and II were the efficient market channels with a dried corn as a final product whereas the market channel with grain maize products was the largest farmer's share