<![CDATA[In the province of Maluku, sago was and is still considered an essential staple food for the local people. Sago flour is consumed either for sustenance needs or as a commercial commodity. For industrial needs, sago is processed to become raw material for food, textile, wood adhesive, fodder, cosmetics, pharmaceuticals, pesticides, chemicals and others. This paper described several socio-economic indicators in sago related activities as a research result in Maluku.fl is concluded that, in general, the education level of respondents are primary school. Most of them have already a long time ago experience in harvesting of sago trees at least for 7 years. They inherit their land ownershif from their ancestors, and the average family land use patterns consist of 54.32 m2 for house building/construction, 966.36 m2 for home garden, and 2.88 hectares for sago garden.The income distribution among several activities of the farmers (respondents) is as followed : ]]>
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