Journal of Agricultural Sciencewww.agrivita.ub.ac.id Plant Origin (FFPO) in the horticulture group. According to Norton, Sanchez, Clarke-Harris, & Traoré (2003), there is a quick-rising in the production and export of horticultural products in many developing countries. Data have shown that from 1970 to 2002, fruit and vegetable production in developing countries increased almost fourfold from 256 to 960 million metric tons, while exports more than triplicated from 1.9 to 6.5 million metric tons. The stimulus for a request for such highvalue commodities include income increase, transportation costs decrease, and, in some cases, improved market access. Production for export is often fostered as a means of producing foreign exchange, boosting incomes to producers, and giving employment to the poor in a rural area. As for the importing countries, they get an advantage from bigger product stocks that generally have been limited and costly in the off-season.In Indonesia, there were five seasonal vegetable commodities with the largest production in sequence, namely shallots (1.4 million tons), cabbage (1.44 million tons), large chili (1.21 million tons), potatoes (1.16 million tons), and ARTICLE INFO