RI Got Abundant Fruit Varieties, Why Hard Exported?

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Equityworld Futures - Government has not been much attention on local fruit, making local fruit cultivation on a large scale is still very minimal. As a result, in addition to the fruit in the country are expensive, Indonesia was flooded with imported fruit, which are cheaper, such as China imported fruit.
Chairman of the Association of Exporters of Fresh Fruits and Vegetables Importers Indonesia (Aseibssindo), Khafid Sirotudin said, employers exporter for this should bother to look for local fruit, either for domestic consumption or for export purposes.
"Farmers in Indonesia, mostly planting fruit is not as income, because it is not promising. Fruit ya looking out of the yard, or if any fruit that has arable land, land under half a hectare," said Khafid to detikFinance, Sunday (11/20/2016 ).
Moreover, according to him, the government does not have accurate data on the production of local fruit farmers. In fact, in addition to the development of export potential, production data is indispensable for the fulfillment of the policy for domestic fruit.
"Data do not exist, if any data is also Abal Abal, is the task of the Department of Agriculture. How much production, how many hectares, where production is, who the farmers," said Khafid.
He continued, in some sort of fruit production areas, the government is also almost no attention to the fruit growers.
"When the harvest peak stock lots of oranges, but the next day is already not there. So even mangosteen, difficult to find her, because mangosteen trees locally the average of tree relics of his ancestors, aged above 20 years. Not planted deliberately for cultivation. Finally the fruit we earn more than that we have maintained our partners, "said Khafid.
Tweedledum and Tweedledee, Chairman of the Fruit and Vegetable Exporters Association of Indonesia (AESBI), Hasan Johnny Widjaja, said the same thing. According to him, the difficulty of exporting local fruits occur in the absence of standards of quality and continuity of supply.
"Now put it this way, people want to buy fruit for what? Definitely a first for her, do not see what good color, taste later, local fruit taste better, but the shape is not known," said Hasan.
"So the key is in the packaging. The problem is in the post-harvest management. For our exporters, how we want to make great packaging, if the goods a little, sometimes there, sometimes not (there)," he added.