APLIKASI METODE LOCATION QUOTIENT ( LQ ) DALAM PENENTUAN KOMODITAS PALAWIJA UNGGULAN PADA PROVINSI SULAWESI BARAT
West Sulawesi is youngest province in Indonesia until now.As always within new province’s economic development, it is need data source to support West Sulawesi economic development for sustainable development. Determine of “secondary food crops” superior commodities of West Sulawesi is one of the step to go in the direction of efficient agricultural development of West Sulawesi.In this Journal, “secondary food crops” are maize, greenpeal, peanut, soybean, java sweet potato (ubi jalar), and kaspe cassava (ubi kayu). There are more methods of superior commodities identification; one is Location Quotient (LQ) approach. LQ method still have excess and deficiency. In LQ’s excess are it simple application, easy and don’t need data processing program which difficult.and deficiency of LQ is must use accurate data.because very difficult to find accurate data. This journal aims to elaborate and examine the implementation of LQ approach uses wide of production of “secondary food crops” series data for three years period ( 2005-2007) from Indonesian Statistics Board (Badan Pusat Statistik) and West Sulawesi Statistics Board ( BPS Sulawesi Barat) as main source. Data processing conducted within spreadsheet from Excel on Microsoft Office 2007. The results conclude that LQ method still obtained as one of relevant method for superior commodities of “secondary food crops” identification. It is suggestion for using LQ with supporting accuracy long series data present.