Kualitas Hortikultura Harus Ditingkatkan Antisipasi ACFTA
Horticulture Quality should Increase Anticipation of ACFTA
Reporter : Gusmiati Waris
Editor : Heru S Winarno
Translator : Parulian Manalu
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Jakarta (B2B) - Guna memenangkan persaingan pasar internasional, produk hortikultura Indonesia harus mampu bersaing. Baik dari segi harga, distribusi, dan kualitas dan membekali petani dengan penanganan pasca panen untuk meningkatkan produksi maupun kualitas produk hortikultura domestik.
Direktur Pusat Kajian Hortikultura Tropika, Institut Pertanian Bogor (IPB) Sobir mengatakan, Indonesia harus bertindak cepat untuk mengantisipasi Perdagangan Bebas ASEAN-China (CAFTA) yang akan meniadakan sistem kuota impor.
"Produksi buah dan sayuran domestik seharusnya mampu mencukupi kebutuhan nasional, Namun produksi yang besar belum didukung dengan kualitas yang baik maka pemerintah harus segera memperbaiki kualitas pertanian," kata Sobir dalam dialog bertajuk ´Kemandirian atau Kelangkaan, Mencari Solusi Tataniaga Buah dan Hortikultura´ di Jakarta, Selasa (23/04).
Dia menambahkan, dalam bidang distribusi harus segera diterapkan distribusi yang pendek untuk meningkatkan harga di tingkat petani, karena selama ini harga di tingkat konsumen melonjak hingga 30% dari harga jual petani.
"Jika pola distribusi diperpendek, petani bisa menyalurkan produk pertanian langsung ke ritel yang besar dibandingkan melalui berlapis-lapis pengumpul sebelum sampai ke konsumen, sehingga konsumen tak perlu menjerit dengan harga yang mahal," ungkap Sobir.
Jakarta (B2B) - In order to win the international market competition, Indonesian horticultural products should be able to compete. Both in terms of price, distribution, and quality and provide farmers with post-harvest handling to improve the production and quality of domestic horticultural products.
Director of the Research Center for Tropical Horticulture, Bogor Agricultural Institute (IPB) Sobir said Indonesia must act quickly to anticipate the ASEAN-China Free Trade Area (CAFTA), which would negate the import quota system.
"Domestic production of fruit and vegetables should be able to meet national needs, however large production has not been supported by good quality, then the government should immediately improve the quality of agriculture," said Sobir in a dialogue titled ´Independence or Scarcity, Finding Solutions Commerce Fruits and Horticulture´ in Jakarta, Tuesday (23/4).
He added, in the distribution must immediately implement the short distribution, to increase the price at the farm level, as long as this consumer prices surged by 30% of the selling price of farmers.
"If the distribution pattern of shortened, farmers could distribute agricultural products directly to retail than through a multi-layered collection before it gets to the consumer, so consumers do not have to worry about the expensive price," said Sobir.
