Sustainability of Salt Business Production in Siduwonge Village

The need for special household salt consumption in Gorontalo Province is estimated to be around 2 tons per year, for ice factories around ± 6 tons (DKP Gorontalo Province, 2021) and there is still more consumption for the various food and fish salting industries. This provides quite a big opportunity for salt farmers to increase their production. Geographically, Siduwonge Village is one of the villages in Randangan District, Pohuwato Regency, Gorontalo Province and astronomically is located at 0ᵒ29'29" North Latitude and 121⁰48'28" East Longitude. The area of Siduwonge Village is 29,430 km² or 16.21% of the area of Randangan District. Siduwonge Village is mostly located in the coastal area with the livelihoods of its residents dominated by farmers (including salt farmers), farm workers, fishermen (including fish farmers) and casual daily laborers. There are 5 (five) hamlets in the village working area, namely Simanagi Hamlet, Bolongga Hamlet, Tolotio Hamlet, South Reset Hamlet and North Reset Hamlet. To see the sustainability of the salt production business in the ecological dimension, the attributes used are those that have a direct or indirect influence, including: (1) Pond bottom, (2) Water height, (3) Storage pond I, (4) Young water reservoir. , (5) Seed ponds and (6) water pH. Results of assessment of attributes on an ordinal scale (scoring).