Efektivitas Program Pemberdayaan Usaha Garam Rakyat dalam Meningkatkan Kesejahteraan Petani Garam di Kabupaten Pamekasan

Salt is a strategic commodity that is needed for various things, both used for food production and non-food production. As a food, salt is consumed by almost all humans in the world. Because of the importance of salt function for health, the government has made it an object to add iodine which is urgently needed to prevent various health problems. Various efforts have been made to increase salt production, including the People's Salt Business Empowerment Program (PUGAR). Reminding Pamekasan Regency is one of the districts in Madura which is one of the largest centers for producing people's salt in East Java. The legal basis underlying the implementation of the PUGAR Program refers to the Regulation of the Minister of Marine Affairs and Fisheries of the Republic of Indonesia No. 41/MEN/2011 concerning Guidelines for the Implementation of the Marine and Fisheries Independent Community Empowerment Program in 2011. This research aims to obtain an analysis of the People's Salt Business Empowerment Program (PUGAR) in Pamekasan district.