Pengembangan Usaha Agrobisnis Perikanan Desa Mattiro Baji Kecamatanan Labakkang Kabupaten Pangkep

Abstract

Pangkep Regency, South Sulawesi Province, known as an archipelago, has 314 islands, with most of the population being fishermen, so it has prospects for development. Weather conditions and fishermen's facilities influence the livelihoods of fish at sea. Hence, their income level fluctuates and tends to decrease due to reduced catches, and the price of marine products is determined more by district collectors and wholesalers. The blue swimming crab commodity is a superior product of Mattiro Baji Village in Pangkajene Islands (Pangkep) Regency. Every year fewer and fewer fishermen are engaged in this business, turning to other jobs such as motorcycle taxi drivers, carpenters and Pangkep. With this phenomenon and problem, the program-implementing team collaborates to formulate and implement solutions. The Solution is expanding the cooperation of collectors both within the Pangkep Regency area and to other areas with crab-producing fishermen with a business contract system (earlier to provide venture capital assistance in cash and fishermen facilities). The solution implementation method has taken several approaches based on fostering an intensification system for partners and fishermen as business partners. The approach in question is; (i) active participation method; that is, every partner activity is directly involved in the implementation so that high work motivation and an atmosphere of togetherness are created both between the implementing team and between program partners, (ii) participatory rural appraisal method; namely in identifying problems and finding solutions by involving program partners, and (iii) development of business; namely helping partners for business development through entrepreneurial technology transformation with intensive training and coaching methods for partner.