Increasing Farmer’s Income with Production of Seaweed Eucheuma cottonii sp

This paper examines the production of seaweed Eucheuma cottonii sp as a major fishery commodity which produces carrageenan in supporting poverty eradication. The specific objectives are to determine factors of production in increasing seaweed production and to analyze income generated seaweed farmers in a harvest season. The research employed Multiple Linear Regression Analysis and Income Analysis. The results show that factors affecting the production of seaweed Eucheuma cottoni are long stretch (X1), seed (X2), labor (X3), farmers experience (X4), and the distance tie (X5). Enterprises of seaweed Eucheuma cottonii sp is a business that is able to increase the farmers income. The research suggests that to increase production of seaweed can be done by improving seed quality, labor, long stretch, connective distance and improvement of marketing management.