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Food hubs and short food supply chain, efforts to realize regional food distribution center (Case study on the establishment of a food distribution center in Banten province, Indonesia)
Winarno H.a, Perdana T.a, Handayati Y.b, Purnomo D.a
a Faculty of Agribusiness, Padjadjaran University, Indonesia
b Business and Management School, Bandung Institute of Technology, Indonesia
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner][vc_separator css=”.vc_custom_1624529070653{padding-top: 30px !important;padding-bottom: 30px !important;}”][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner layout=”boxed”][vc_column_inner width=”3/4″ css=”.vc_custom_1624695412187{border-right-width: 1px !important;border-right-color: #dddddd !important;border-right-style: solid !important;border-radius: 1px !important;}”][vc_empty_space][megatron_heading title=”Abstract” size=”size-sm” text_align=”text-left”][vc_column_text]© ExcelingTech Pub, UK.Agricultural development plays a role in providing food supply, maintaining food scarcity and maintaining food prices so as not to fluctuate and evenly distribute food, becoming a major problem in each region. Banten Province with regional potentials that have a surplus of food products and a wide area that is adequate has the potential to develop a food distribution center. The aim of a food distribution center is to meet food supply chain chain throughout the region, avoid food scarcity, stabilize food prices and maintain price disparities thus they can be properly met. The role of food hubs is to aggregate, distribute and market food at the farmer, trader level, and to function the role of the BUMD in realizing the operation of the food distribution center. Short food supply chain chains cut costs of crop production in farmers, food distribution costs and transportation costs from farmers to distribution centers. Government policies through relevant local government agencies must be able to move the role of stakeholders in this case farmers, traders, distributors, transportation services in realizing the operation of the food distribution center to provide food procurement services and able to provide welfare levels, especially small farmers as producers in the supply chain of food products.[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space][vc_separator css=”.vc_custom_1624528584150{padding-top: 25px !important;padding-bottom: 25px !important;}”][vc_empty_space][megatron_heading title=”Author keywords” size=”size-sm” text_align=”text-left”][vc_column_text][/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space][vc_separator css=”.vc_custom_1624528584150{padding-top: 25px !important;padding-bottom: 25px !important;}”][vc_empty_space][megatron_heading title=”Indexed keywords” size=”size-sm” text_align=”text-left”][vc_column_text]Aggregation,Food distribution costs,Food scarcity,Government policies,Supply chain[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space][vc_separator css=”.vc_custom_1624528584150{padding-top: 25px !important;padding-bottom: 25px !important;}”][vc_empty_space][megatron_heading title=”Funding details” size=”size-sm” text_align=”text-left”][vc_column_text]Thank you to the Education Fund Management Institution (LPDP) for funding this research fund, and I also thank the Provincial Government of Banten (Department of Commerce, Department of Agriculture, Department of Food Security) and district / city governments in all regions of Banten Province which became my research sites.[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space][vc_separator css=”.vc_custom_1624528584150{padding-top: 25px !important;padding-bottom: 25px !important;}”][vc_empty_space][megatron_heading title=”DOI” size=”size-sm” text_align=”text-left”][vc_column_text][/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″][vc_column_text]Widget Plumx[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_separator css=”.vc_custom_1624528584150{padding-top: 25px !important;padding-bottom: 25px !important;}”][/vc_column][/vc_row]