POTENTIAL ANALYSIS OF NATURE RESOURCES, LABORS, AGRICULTURE AND PLANTATION ON BEEF DEVELOPMENT AT ERIS DICTRICT, MINAHASA REGENCY. Beef population at Eris district of Minahasa regency was decreasing. On the other hand, the areas of Eris district have the potential support in terms of nature resource availability, local labors, agriculture and plantation. The problems were that those supporting factors for beef development had not been evaluated at each village at Eris district. The objective of this study was to identify supporting factors for beef development and to define basis village at Eris district for beef farm development. Survey method was applied for data collection. Results showed that Eris district had productive labor resources with the average age of 44 years old, although the average education level of elementary school. Big geographical potential aspects of agriculture and plantation around Eris district were low land and mountain land. The calculation of Location Quation (LQ) found five villages for beef development having LQ of more than 1.0, including Telap village (2.545), Tandengan I village (1.636), Maumbi village (1.512), Watumea village (1.091), and Eris village (1.091). Three villages at Eris district had no potency for beef development with LQ values of less than 1.0, including Tandengan village (0.364), Ranomerut village (0.909), and Toliang Oki village (0.182). Therefore, it can be concluded that Eris district had potency for beef development supported by the availabilities of nature resources, labor (household farmers) and agriculture as well as plantation areas spreading on five basis villages of Telap village, Tandengan I village, Maumbi village, Watumea village, and Eris village. Key words: Nature resource, Labor resource, Agriculture, Plantation, LQ, Eris Minahasa.
