Karakteristik usaha gaharu alam (Aquilaria malaccensis) di Provinsi Bengkulu: studi kasus Kabupaten Bengkulu Selatan, Kabupaten Kaur, dan Kabupaten Seluma
Abstract
Forest is a natural resource that can be used for the people walfare. One of forest product which has potential to be used is resin agarwood. Gaharu has high sold price with production qualification that consist of gubal, kemedangan and ash. Each of product containsOleo Chromone which are produce unique aroma, so that it often used in many industries such as parfum industry, cosmetic industry and religion ritual need. High demand of agarwood cause the demand of it increase more, so that influence to the decrease more, but the agarwood exertion process still do so that it is important to do investigation of natural agarwood characteristics nowdays. This Research aims to know the characteristic of the natural agarwood exertion in Bengkulu Province, that consist of the characteristic of agarwoodenterprenuer (finder small, collector seller and big collector seller), the process of agarwood exertion, kinds and quality characteristic, marketing system and also policy in agarwood exertion. The methodology of this research is qualitative by describing the characteristic of natural agarwood exertion and quantitative by counting the margin of profit. There are three groups of gaharuenterprenuer namely: agarwood finder, small collector and big collector. The group of agarwood finders do the gaharu exertion. On the process of agarwood exertion need the specific skill about the characteristic of tree that contain agarwood. The products then sell to collector seller of agarwoodthrough its selling channel. The selling of agarwood begun by determining the condition and price, where there are seven agreed quality. This quality class is so determining the price, better quality of agarwood higher the price and lower quality of agarwood lower the price. The differences of price from each quality of agarwood can reach 3-15 times from the increasing each quality. Enterprenuer have role in determining namely big collector seller so that margin of highest price gotten by them is 1,4-2 multiple times with their income that they gottetn 28 times from income of agarwood finders group. In order to manage marketing of agarwood, government determines policy in the form of quota in a year, the license that is given to big collector seller in 5 year and the rate of dues determined based on gubal class Rp 20.000,-/kg and kemedanganRp 2.000,-/kg.
Collections
- UT - Forest Management [2835]