Abstract
Food crop commodities are the strategic national agricultural commodities. Since 2018,
Ministry of Agriculture chooses Langkat Regency as a food crop agricultural area. In line
with this, the direction of developing food crop commodities should be able to become a
leading sector for increasing community welfare and income in Langkat Regency. This
study aimed to analyze the types of superior food crop commodities and examine the
influence of supporting factors for leading food crop commodities on farmers’
production, as well as strategic priorities for developing food crop superior commodities.
This type of research was descriptive research using primary and secondary data. The
analytical methods used were Location Quotient (LQ) analysis, multiple linear regression
and Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP). The results demonstrated that the leading food
crop commodity with the largest LQ value was rice 2.65, followed by maize at 1.49 and
soybean at 1.12. The results showed that the influence of the availability of supporting
factors for food commodities such as procurement of inputs for production facilities,
utilization of technology, infrastructure, marketing, farmer institutions and extension
services had a significance value of less than 0.05. The value of f count was more than f
table, so that each variable had a simultaneous effect on farmers’ production. The results
of the AHP revealed that infrastructure development was the main priority chosen in the
strategy for developing superior food crops with alternative strategies, including:
maintenance of irrigation networks (0.409), development of reservoirs (0.275),
development of farm roads (0.196) and sluice maintenance (0.120).
