Wawan Gunawan
Talas Sumedang agro -tourism is one of the agricultural -based tourism objects managed by the Ganeas District Farmers Group and Talas Sumedang is one of its main agricultural commodities. The existence of the agro -tourism area has not been well developed, so far in Ganeas District, one of the developing attractions is only historical tourism. The development and management of good agro -tourism areas can have an impact on the economic welfare of the surrounding community. This type of research is qualitative and quantitative research that uses SWOT analysis and several internal factors (IFAS) and external factors (EFAS) with the results of calculations including a strength score of 1.40; weakness score 1.45; Opportunities score of 1,21 and threat score 0.84. Then a SWOT matrix, the result of the alternative strategy is ST (Strength-Threats), and conclusions are obtained that produce alternative strategies recommendations in the form of defensive strategies in the form of improvement of internal factors such as optimizing Sumedang taro commodities from upstream to downstream, improvement of human resource management and disease pests.