Analysis of the Potential of the Agricultural Sector in Mallawa District, Maros Regency in Development as an Agropolitan Area

Abstract

Development in developing countries is mostly focused on the utilization of natural resources to attract investors in spurring regional economic growth. Its development is oriented towards the exploitation of natural resources and tends to ignore environmental issues. The utilization of natural resources towards the development of agropolitan areas has an impact on economic growth and increasing farmer income in rural areas. This study uses a sequential explanatory research method, a combination of sequential quantitative and qualitative research methods. Qualitative methods function to prove, deepen, expand, weaken, and invalidate quantitative data obtained at an early stage and build research hypotheses. While the quantitative methods used are descriptive, comparative, and associative. The steps are carried out carefully and holistically based on field facts, namely individual or group characteristics, and their relationship between the phenomena being investigated. The results of this study confirm that increasing the productivity of the regional economic base sector impacts the development of agropolitan areas based on rural agribusiness systems in the direction of increasing community income and the regional economy. This article offers a concept of system integration in the development of agropolitan areas based on ecosystem sustainability and regional economic growth in developing countries.