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Non Timber Forest Products (NTFPs) have important social and economic values for society by utilizing NTFPs for their livelihood. The purpose of this research was to make aninventory and to identify NTFPs that has been managed dan utilized by community, to determine superior NTFPs of Barito Timur Regency, to analyze the stake holder’s tasks, functions, and rolesin the NTFPs development, and to formulate the development strategy of NTFPs. The research was carried out in selected locations of Barito Timur Regency, Central Kalimantan Province. The data were obtained withindepth interviews to the key informants and villagers and through surveying the potential of NTFP. Development Strategy was formulated with SWOT analysis.. Primary and secondary data were collected through bservation method. The findings showed that the commodity of NTFP in Regency Barito Timur were rattans, agar wood, bamboos, and palm sugar. Rattan was featured NTFP of Regency Barito Timur with the value 68.15. Based on the result of the analysis of Matrix SWOT diagram, the development position of Barito Timur Regency was in quadrant I that showed the coordinate (1,132 and 0,988). It means that the position has strengths and pportunities to make it possible to develop and achieve progress. The stake holders are government, enterpreneurs, and farmers. The development strategies for maximizing the use of rattans were to develop rattan production source by cultivation, developing cooperative businesses as an attempt to increase the use of rattans, to develop the marketing of rattan, and to develop the role of stake holders. |
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