PENGUATAN KETAHANAN PANGAN NASIONAL MELALUI STRATEGI PERBAIKAN EFISIENSI PEMASARAN HASIL PERTANIAN

Abstract

The  success  of  Indonesia  to  achieve  food  self-sufficient,  mostly  didn’t support  with  the  easiness  to  access  the  food.  Therefore,  it  is  need  to  strengthening national food  security which concern to the accessibility aspect. One strategy that can be applied is by improving the marketing efficiency of agricultural product. Through this strategy, we will be enable to reduce the marketing margins, increased producer selling price and reduce the purchasing price in the level of consumer. Furthermore, the improving of marketing efficiency will support the availability and accessibility of  food in the society. So, this study aims to determine the important of the strengthening efforts for national food security through marketing efficiency improvement strategy of agriculture commodity. NSSE data and Annual Input and Output table from year 2008 was  used  in  this  research  and  analyze  by  using  Computable  General  Equilibrium (CGE)  model.  The  empirical  result  shows  that  the  improvement  of  marketing efficiency  by  5-15%  generally  bring  a  positive  effect  to  the  national  food  security,based on the several indicators, such as the quantity of domestic output, exports, and imports. Therefore,  it  needs  to  arrange  an  action  plan  which  is  reference  from  the marketing  efficiency  improvements  strategy. The  concept  of  policies that  can  be  set are as follows: (1) improving market information systems through the development of an  auction  market  of  agricultural  products,  (2)  improving  farmers  performance  to participate  in  marketing  activities  through  strengthening  farmers  institutional, (3) improving  transportation  facilities,  (4)  apply  of  agricultural  product  hedging mechanism  by  Sistem  Resi  Gudang  (SRG),  (5)  price  stabilization  of  agricultural products,  especially  food  crops,  and  (6)  protection  toward  domestic  agriculture production.