INVESTMENT POTENTIAL AND OPPORTUNITY

Food Crop Agriculture
The key commodities are (1) Rambutan that produce 1,375 ton and located in Tapalang, Mamuju, Kallukku, Papalang and Pangale district. (2) Orange that produce 137,710 ton which is supported by 146,954 threes and located in Tobadak, Topoyo, and Sarudu district. The investment opportunities are the development of potential land for fruit, juice industry and processing and cooling material for the fruit.

Plantation
The key commodities are (1) Oil Palm that produce 613,633 ton; area wide is 49,297 ha and located in Pasangkayu, Budong-Budong, Rapala, and Karasa district. (2) Cocoa that produce 56,789 ton; area wide is 50,627 ha and located in Pasangkayu district. (3) Vanilla that produce 333 ton; wide area is 2,368 ha and located in Topoyo, Pasangkayu, Sarudu and Mamuju district. The investment opportunities are potential land for oil palm development about 126,580 ha; oil industry, drying industry for Vanilla and Cocoa, cultivation and trading.

Animal Husbandry
The key commodities are (1) Cow which population about 71,028 and located in Kalluku, Papalang, Pangale, and Tommo district. (2) Broiler Chicken which population about 2.5 million and located in Tapalang, Mamuju, Tommo, Sampaga and Kaluku district. The investment opportunities are cultivation (fattening) of cow; feed mill industry, animal slaughter industry and big scale trading (livestock).

Land Transportation
Land transportation in this regency is supported by the availability of road network which achieves + 1,626.62 Km whereas 45% of the road condition considers as good condition.

Sea Transportation
The facilities, which is available in Belang-Belang port is served by PT. PELNI is two times sailing. Moreover, there is also ferry facility, which is served by two private companies namely PT. Jembatan Madura Ferry and PT. Darma Kosala for the route Mamuju Balikpapan directly every day.

Air Transportation
Air transportation facilities in this regency is supported by the availability of airport namely Tanpapadang airport that located in Sinyonyoi, Mamuju district about + 31 Km from Mamuju. The plane, which can be landed on this airport, is Twin Otter.

Telecommunication
Telecomunication network is also available in this region, which is managed by PT. Telkom. Number of telephone network in this regency attains 2,349 SST (Main Telephone Channel). Moreover, cellular telephone network can also be access in several areas, especially the area near capital city.

Bank
Number of banks, which are operated in this regency, is three units namely BRI, BNI and South Sulawesi BPD.

Breeding Sector
The breeding sub sector development has pointed to increase population and livestock production to fulfill the public consumption of nourishment, beside that also applied to increase the breeder earnings. The livestock populations that grow in Mamuju regency are ox livestock, buffalo, goat and sheep. While for poultry type is race chicken, local chicken and duck.

Fishery Sector
Mamuju regency has longest coastline in West Sulawesi around 415 Km which spread over in 48 country sides in 13 district regions, become one of this area potency. Sea fishery product in Mamuju regency is 30000 tons, the fishpond of width shifting 22950 ha and mangrove bog with a width of 10241 ha. Besides that, it is also done an expansion of sea conducting of grass and sea cucumber. For that fishpond that developed is prawn and fish.

Plantation Sector
The production of crop plantation in Mamuju regency with flattening rainfall, make this area is precise for oil palm, hybrid coconut, cacao, coffee Arabica / Robusta, walnut, vanilla, sago and peppercorn expansion. From the commodities, oil coconut, cacao, coconut hybrid and walnut is taken as the exceeding. Special is oil palm, in Mamuju regency, it has produced about 533343 tons per-year in 2002, make this area become the central produce of the biggest oil palm in West Sulawesi.

Besides oil palm and cacao that becomes the commodity in Mamuju regency, this area also multifarious producer kinds of fruits. One of them is which is be developed on a large-scale farmer in this Manakarra earth (lucky trust) is sweet orange. The production of sweet orange in Mamuju regency experience improvement that is enough significant. In Belang - belang port for example, around 200 sweet orange tons of mamuju is routinely sent PT Deity Multiple to Jakarta per month, and sweet orange that sent to Kalimantan Island through Feri port.