Increased Efficiency of Production of Madura People's Salt with the Analytic Network Process (ANP) Method and Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) Approach

Abstract

Madura Island is one of the largest people's salt producing areas and has a lot of scattered areas, especially the people's salt that is in every coastal area. The problem is that the production of salt by the people of Madura is not able to carry out the maximum production process, and the output of salt can't be fully absorbed by the market due to the quality of the salt. People still do not meet the criteria, in addition to the existence of the governmental policy of importing salt to meet the national salt supply. Imported salt has a quality that is considered sufficient. Moreover, a more affordable price than local salt is one of the drivers of salt import activity, moreover, salt import activities are not one solution that can be justified and still need a sustainable study. The investigation aims to determine the level of efficiency and optimize the production of people's salt, in particular in Sumenep district, which is one of the largest salt-producing areas. The research begins with determining the factors that influence the efficiency of the production of Madura people's salt using the Analytic Network Process (ANP) method, then determines the level of production efficiency using the Data Envelopment Analysis method (DEA). The efficiency of salt production among the Madura people, especially in Sumenep district, is 80.66%. Factors leading to inefficiency include fields and supporting technology. Improvement proposals to improve the efficiency of people's salt production include periodic inspection of the geomembranes, construction of intensive crystallization houses during the rainy season, improving the layout of the pitch, which is less effective at the time of irrigation, and the application of a roll material handling tool to assist the process of transferring the salt that has been harvested to a silo or a temporary storage warehouse.