Analisis Faktor-faktor yang Memengaruhi Respon Produksi Kakao di Indonesia

Abstract

Cocoa (Theobroma cacao) is a plant from South America. Cocoa is one of the plantation pledge commodity whose role quite important for the national economy, particularly as a provider of employment, sources of income and foreign exchange (Ministry of Industry 2007). Cocoa contributed the largest foreign exchange to Indonesia's exports after oil palm. Foreign exchange value of cocoa amounted to U.S. $ 1,345.3 million with a volume of 440 thousand tons in 2011. The purpose of this study was to analyze factors that affect response cacao production in Indonesia and saw developments of cocoa in Indonesia. This study uses quantitative and descriptive analysis. Quantitative analysis which used to analyze the factors which affect the production of cocoa in Indonesia is OLS (ordinary least square). Results of the OLS analysis indicates that response cocoa Production affected by the total area of cocoa, crisis and the production previously.