Vegetables Mapping Using Production and Socioeconomic Indicators Approach

Founded in 2007, Serang was considered as one of the new cities in Indonesia. That was why vegetables commodities mapping was not available yet. This mapping was essential for a new city to create an accurate policy in order to develop and maintain sustainable agriculture practices. Many agriculture commodities mappings were constructed by using location quotient (LQ) method. Unfortunately, it was based on productivity only. In this paper, we presented a vegetables commodities mapping by using not only production factor, but also farmer’s socioeconomic indicators, namely: (1) land width (preservation), (2) future land width (enhancement), and (3) household expenditure. The production factors and the farmer’s socioeconomic indicators were mapped and drawn in a biplot as the first and the second layer. These two layers were overlayed in order to obtain a priority commodity in each district. Finally, this study resulted in four commodity priority categories, and they are: first, Cipocok Jaya district as the main priority with cucumber as its potential commodity; second, Curug district with chili as its commodity; third, Walantaka district with chili and Taktakan district with pea bean as their potential commodities; and finally, Kasemen and Serang districts that have no identified commodity yet.