PELAKSANAAN PENGEMBANGAN KAWASAN AGROPOLITAN KABUPATEN MALANG (Studi Kasus Kecamatan Poncokusumo)

Poncokusumo district of Malang regency is directed to be an agropolitan area because that area is considered potential in agricultural field, especially in food plant, horticulture, fruits, and vegetables. The agropolitan concept accommodate two main issues, they are determining the agricultural sector as the main source of economic growth and the regional policies and regulations about regional autonomy. Agropolitan is a thinking concept, point of view, or strategy to conduct development in a region, both in urban and suburban area with continuous agriculture. The focus of this study is to discover how far the implementation of agropolitan in Poncokusumo district of Malang regency and to find out the agropolitan development prospect in Poncokusumo district of Malang regency. Keywords: Agropolitan, economic development, agricultural sector, rural and urban economy