Analysis of soybean production to achieve soybean self-sufficiency using system dynamics approach

Abstract

Soybean is widely used as raw material of various types of processed foods. The still remaining problem today is the soybean’s demand that is not balance when it’s compared to the farmer’s soybean production. This could affect soybean shortage. If the need of soybean in East Java Province can be fulfilled, then East Java Province can be said to have a surplus and self-sufficiency of soybean. The decline in soybean production was influenced by handled and unhandled factors. The contribution of this paper is modeling soybean production and scenario. Both were used to increase soybean production, so that it can achieve self-sufficiency by considering the variables that influence in soybean production. This research use system dynamic approach because it can be used like a tool to provide information and feed back to the system and offer a solution from developed scenarios