Saturday, October 3, 2009

Farmer Frustated The Price of Vegetables Drop

Farmer from Bayongbong Garut frustated, because the price of vegetables commodities such as, cabbage, tomato, and potato drop, because endured of marketing and too many agricultural productions.
A Farmer from Bayongbong, Aman, Friday (10/2) say, tomoto price usually Rp.3.000,00 to Rp.4.000,00 per kg, now drop to Rp. 800,00/kg. Cabbage also Rp.800,00/kg at farmer level, whereas Rp.2.000,00/kg.
"Except that the price of soybean stable at Rp.6.000,00/kg and potatoes Rp.4.800,00/kg. This two  kind of vegetables is still safe at Stasiun Agribisnis STA ( Agriculture Station)," say Chairman of Ikatan Penangkar Pedagang Benih (IPPB) Bayongbong, Sutarman when asked for his opinion about the price drop of a few commodity of vegetables.
However, vegetables commodity marketing is still fast market to Batam, Pontianak, and local. About 150 tons vegetables commodity such as cabbage, tomato and potato distributed every week to that region. But marketing omzet per three months, follow by Yoyo as staff there, can be raise to Rp.1.9 billion. "All vegetables commodity supplied by farmer from Cikajang, Samarang, Bayongbong and around there.
Dropping price for a few vegetables commodity, recognize by Bupati Garut Aceng H.M. Fikri, Friday (10/2), as a mistake from Garut goverment, who does not immediately make regulations and map area.
"If we had makes the map area for vegetables planting, then we will know which correct region for tomato. When the price of tomato is good, so all farmer plant tomato, and when harvest time the result from production is raise, price for tomato who good becomes drop to Rp.800,00. The suffer of course the farmer," said Bupati Garut.

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