Local Soybean Agribusiness Policy Scenarios to Increase Competitiveness in the International Level

Abstract

The solution to the lack of effective government policy in the self-sufficiency program soybean characterized by the tendency of decrease in soybean production, reduced soil planting soybeans as well as high imports of soybean, especially fluctuations in the price of soybeans, it would require alternative management model inventory is based on a thorough understanding of the issue of intensification and extensification and the value of the interests of farmers, institutional assessment soybean commodity business with descriptive and prescriptive approach ,. Purpose of this study was to determine the value chain at each stage of soybeans from upstream to downstream and seek alternative institutional model of soybean inventory management, postharvest

management both for consumption and for the fulfillment of industrial raw materials in East Java. The study used quantitative approach that is reinforced by a qualitative approach, ie, studies that rely on quantitative data but also in the analysis of qualitative data utilizing as material support or enrichment analysis by research area that is Jember and Banyuwangi. The strategy is obtained from this analysis is the change in consumption patterns has put soybeans not only as a source of vegetable protein is safe for health, but also as a source of functional food. Soybeans have a strategic value in improving national food security in a sustainable manner, to nourish and educate human resources which is challenging in the future. Therefore, the need to support synergistic policies of the government in order to further empower t he roadmap towards self-sufficiency in soybeans. One characteristic of the synergistic policies is the impact felt at the level of value added subsystems subsystem farmers as producers and consumers of small industries processing as well as the public consumer of processed soy products.