Analysis of Added Value of Various Rendang Products in Strengthening Regional Innovation System in the City of Payakumbuh, West Sumatera

Abstract

This research aims to determine the regional core competencies to strengthen the city of Payahkumbuh's Regional Innovation System by developing processed livestock products such as Rendang, a traditional dish popular in the Province of West Sumatra. Rendang is processed meat obtained from a long low-temperature cooking process using chilies and coconut milk. The city of Payakumbuh, located in West Sumatra, is one of the centers for the rendang processing industry that produces different types of rendang products including beef rendang, chicken rendang, egg rendang, lung rendang, sweet potato rendang, etc. This research discusses the added value of rendang products as an effort to increase the food industry to increase competitiveness and food production within the framework of a regional innovation and development through livestock product processing industry. Primary data were obtained through interviews with actors within the rendang industry. While secondary data derive from rendang industry literature. The data analysis used is the value-added analysis drawing on the Hayami method. The results show that the highest ratio of added value is egg rendang product (16.19%), followed by lung rendang with a value-added ratio of 8.44%.

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