The Economic Potential Analysis of Nata de Pina Production Using Pineapple Skin Waste to Develop Product Variants of Pineapple Food Industry in Riau Province
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Abstract
Sustainable development is an important issue that
must be considered in an industrial business. Companies have
been encouraged to include environmental aspects in making
their strategic decisions and production activities by creating and
implementing innovations to convert wastes into added value
products. Riau province is one of the regions in Indonesia that
produce pineapple fruits on a large scale. This research focused
on developing product variants of pineapple food industry which
is based on utilizing pineapple skin as raw material of making a
new variant nata de pina. There were two studies in this
research, the experimental design of nata de pina using taguchi
method and economic potential analysis of developing this new
product in Riau by implementing full costing method. The
analysis concluded that sugar and vinegar contributed
significantly to the process. The result showed that this product is
economically potential to be developed with competitive selling
price at IDR 1,612 per kg compared with nata de coco that has
selling price at IDR 2,000 per kg