Mango Spraying Agreement as an Effort to Increase Mango Production to Support the Improvement of the People's Economy in Coastal Areas of Pekalongan Regency

In general, people planted mango trees for reforestation and did not take care of them because it was inefficient at both time and cost. That condition attracted capital owners' attention by leasing and profit-sharing transactions or called as "mango spraying agreement." This article analyzes such practice in Pekalongan Regency.The study used an empirical juridical approach and the specification of descriptive analysis. The study found that the mango spraying agreement is practiced in the form of lease and profit-sharing contracts should be made by oral agreement (without written documents), without witnesses, and within a period of once harvest. The type of maro the contribution and the harvest were split into two, i.e., between the owner and the cultivator. On the other hand, the form of merely applied the profit-sharing between the owner, the capital owner, and the cultivator by the agreement, respectively. Then, the mango spraying agreement had provided benefits of increasing the production of mangos both in quality and quantity in Pekalongan regency. It ultimately had an impact on improving the community economy as the activity involved many parties in the community (owners, capital owners, sprayers, cultivators, shippers, and collectors) which particularly respectively obtained financial benefits and generally improved the economy of the coastal area's community in Pekalongan regency.