The competitiveness analysis of Nutmeg farming as spices in Ternate, North Moluccas

Abstract

Today’s agricultural business is faced with various obstacles, and cannot be measured to what extent its competitiveness, while the conception of agricultural development that has competitiveness has not been described more operationally and implementable, so that there is a gap between the ideal conception and the actual field. This study activity aims to analyze the competitiveness of Nutmeg spice farming in terms of domestic resource use in Ternate City. Nutmeg farming in Ternate City has a competitive and comparative advantage, this is indicated by PCR and DRCR values that are smaller than 1 (one). The results of PAM analysis on nutmeg farming have no input transfers because they do not use foreign inputs. The NPCI value for all is below one (<1). The value of NPCI is smaller than one, meaning that domestic prices are lower than world prices, so there can be said to be a subsidy policy from the government. Whereas for nutmeg farming. The transfer value of factors for nutmeg is positive, this indicates that there is an implicit tax or transfer from the nutmeg farmer to domestic factor, so farmers have to pay more than the price of the shadow (social).

Competitiveness and Export Position of Indonesian Whole Nuts Seeds in the International Market for the Period 2011-2022

“…The RCA calculation is used to measure the level of comparative advantage of a commodity in a country. RCA is calculated by comparing the export performance of particular products from that country to the total commodity exports to the destination country and also comparing the export performance of that product to total world exports (Assagaf M. et al, 2021). Strong competitiveness compared to other exporters must be accompanied by selecting the right export market.…”