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Shallots are one of the important horticultural commodities in Indonesia, which demand is always high. The shallot supply chain faces the challenge of restrictions that have an impact on the trading system of these products. As the impact of the Covid 19 Pandemic in agriculture, this study aims to determine: what internal and external factors affect the sustainability of the shallot supply chain in the pandemic era, and what strategies are suitable for the sustainability of the supply chain. This study has located in Malang as the third largest production of shallots in East Java. This research uses a quantitative approach and purposive sampling with structured interviews online and offline to shallot actors in the supply chain channel consisting of farmers, collectors, wholesalers and consumers. The analysis was done descriptively with SWOT analysis. Result shows that SO strategy provided more advantage and strengths to anticipate threats and preventing weakness within the supply chain model. SWOT matrix has produced alternative strategies in increasing the sustainability of the shallot supply chain to sustain the pandemic of Covid-19 such as improving the partnership between actors, market share expansion and also utilizing government support. © 2023 American Institute of Physics Inc.. All rights reserved.
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Business sustainability in New Normal era is based on how smart is the ability of entrepreneur to maintain and develop their business especially during uncertainty in COVID-19 pandemic. Characters of entrepreneur define from the strategic management in managing their tangible and intangibles factors within their business models. This paper aims to understand the influence of intangible factors such as opportunity focused, innovativeness and resource leveraging towards business competitiveness in food industry. This is a quantitative research that is conducted in Sanan Industry of Malang which is a place of 65 chips home industries. Samplings were selected through a non-probability using the purposive method. The Structural Equation Modeling-Partial Least Square (SEM-PLS) method was used to conduct research analysis using the WarpPLS analysis tool. This study shows the results that opportunity focused and innovativeness have a positive and significant effect on the competitiveness, however improvement need to be done in resource leveraging competitiveness to survive the pandemic. © 2023 American Institute of Physics Inc.. All rights reserved.
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A sustainable supply scenario becomes an important part of supply chain management for agricultural products in a conjuncture situation. In order to invent sustainable agriculture product supply, it is necessary to ensure that the existing upstream supply chain is sufficiently resilient with minimum disruption. This research aims to analyze risk in the shallot upstream supply chain in Malang during the Covid-19 pandemics. In this study, 8 shallots farmers and 3 intermediaries/traders were interviewed as key informants, and the purposive method was used. Upstream supply chain risk analysis is carried out in two stages to analyze risks from farmers and traders. Analysis was done by using a risk matrix. The result shows that the main risk of sustainable aspects within the upstream level is economic aspects. The distribution level needs to be paid more attention to because it has more risks than the farmers’ level.
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The agricultural sector is one that has been impacted by Covid-19. However, because of its function in the food production sector, it has to keep contributing to the economy of Indonesia even in the pandemic situation. Mushroom is one of the agricultural commodities which can be considered quite promising. Many mushroom producers turn into potential Micro Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs). Behind the good aspects, some evidence argued that the production performance of the mushroom business is not optimal related to less capacity and lack of appropriate knowledge. This research aimed to map Business Model Canvas (BMC), identify the existing conditions of the business model, and understand the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats of the mushroom agro-industry as well as formulate a business development strategy. This research is a descriptive quantitative study conducted in April-November 2020. Respondents are the business owner of the mushroom industry chosen purposively for this research. Data analysis was by mapping BMC and SWOT analysis. Research shows that nine elements of the canvas business model had simplified the business. Value creation done by mostly online marketing, diversify products and opening cooking classes to keep the business sustain. Proactive strategy requires mushroom agro-industry to actively seize various opportunities in the fast development of in business environment by optimizing digital marketing, marketing strategy and open partnership.