Analysis of The Competitiveness of The Madurese Tobacco in Sumenep Regency )*

The opportunity of agribusiness product especially tobacco is sufficiently open. Therefore, the highly competitiveness exist in its world market. In this situation, the successfully of tobacco agribusiness will be depend on its competitiveness. The competitiveness of the commodity can be determined by its comparative advantages and competitive advantages.

The main purpose of this research are (1) To analyze the profitability of Madurese tobacco on rice land, a dry land, and a mountain land, (2) To analyze the competitiveness of commodity based on its comparative advantages and competitive advantages, (3) To examine the impact of the government’s policy to the tobacco farming in Madura, and (4) To examine the competitiveness of commodity with respect to the price change of its production input.
The research is carried out in Sumenep regency as the centra of tobacco farming in Madura where its productivity trend to increase. Stratified Cluster Sampling has been used to determine the sample farmers. Policy Analysis Matrix (PAM) has been used to analyze the sample data.
Result of the analyzes shows that Madurese tobacco farming have private profit, i.e., Rp. 1,471,271.96, Rp. 1,782,294.67, and Rp. 6,795,065.63 per hectare mountain land, dry land and irrigated rice land respectively. But social profit only have been obtained by tobacco farming on dry land and irrigated rice land, i.e., Rp. 713,791.95 and Rp. 10,730,281.65 per hectare respectively. Tobacco farming on mountain land has negative social profit Rp. 513,923.49 per hectare. Turthermore, the comparative advantages of commodity produced from tobacco farming on dry land and irrigated rice land have been shown by its DRC of 0,9621 and 0,4684 respectively. Besides, its PCR are 0,9276 and 0,6308 respectively shows competitive advantages. Tobacco farming on mountain land has been shown by its DRC and PCR of 1,0290 and 0,6308 respectively. The government’s policy of input and output prices have positive impact for the tobacco farming on mountain land and the dry land, but it does not on irrigated rice land. Its competitiveness increase with respect to 5 % decrease of tradable input price and decrease with respect to 10 % and 30 % increase of tradable input price. The competitiveness of the commodity decrease with respect to 40 % increase of urea price. Likewise the increasing of tax is about 20 % cause increasing of its competitiveness.
)* Ika Fatmawati Pramasari, SP