Pengukuhan Pengurus Masyarakat Pencinta Buah dan Sayuran Nusantara
Inauguration of Community Board Fruits and Vegetables Archipelago Lovers
Reporter : Gusmiati Waris
Editor : Cahyani Harzi
Translator : Dhelia Gani
Jakarta (B2B) - Masyarakat Pencinta Buah dan Sayuran Nusantara (MPBSN) menyatakan deklarasi cinta buah dan sayuran nusantara. MPBSN bertujuan menggalang semangat dan upaya terus menjaga, memelihara, mengembangkan, dan memanfaatkan buah dan sayuran lokal.
"Konsumsi rakyat terhadap buah dan sayuran masih rendah, karena belum mencapai 40 kg per kapita per tahun. Padahal, idealnya adalah lebih dari 65 kg per kapita per tahun seperti di negara-negara maju," kata Menteri Pertanian Suswono saat menyampaikan sambutan pada deklarasi MPBSN di Jakarta Convention Center, Minggu (26/5).
Menurutnya, pemerintah terus berupaya meningkatkan daya saing buah dan sayuran nusantara melalui peningkatan kualitas dan kontinuitas produksi, meningkatkan akses petani ke pasar-pasar modern melalaui penguatan struktur rantai pemasok, dan memajukan pasar tradisional serta meningkatkan promosi dan pemasaran baik di dalam negeri dan mancanegara.
Turut hadir dalam kegiatan tersebut Wakil Menteri Pertanian, Rusman Heriawan; Direktur Jenderal Hortikultura Kementerian Pertanian, Hasanudin Ibrahim; Kepala Badan Penelitian dan Pengembangan Pertanian, Haryono; Dewi Motik Pramono, dan Ketua MPBSN Ibu Mieke Wahyuni Suswono.
"Hal tersebut dilakukan Kementerian Pertanian untuk mengupayakan agar buah dan sayuran nusantara menguasi pasar dalam negeri di tengah tingginya pasokan buah impor," ungkap Suswono.
Deklarasi MPBSN
Organisasi masyarakat (Ormas) MPBSN didirikan pada 19 September 2012 di Jakarta. Keanggotaannya dari berbagai unsur masyarakat baik swasta, akademisi, praktisi maupun masyarakat.
MPBSN diketuai oleh Ibu Mieke Wahyuni Suswono dengan keanggotaan saat ini berjumlah hampir 100 orang. Pengukuhan pengurus MPBSN dilakukan dalam rangkaian kegiatan Gerakan Cinta Buah dan Sayuran Nusantara di Jakarta, Minggu (26/5).
"Salah satu program aksi yang dicanangkan MPBSN adalah kampanye cinta buah dan nusantara melalui Deklarasi Cinta Buah dan Sayuran Nusantara akan terus dilakukan kepada masyarakat melalui berbagai kegiatan dan media massa untuk meningkatkan kesadaran masyarakat dalam meningkatkan konsumsi buah dan sayuran nusantara," kata Ibu Mieke Suswono kepada B2B.
Jakarta (B2B) - Fruit and Vegetable Lovers Society Archipelago (MPBSN) declaration of love fruits and vegetables archipelago. MPBSN aims to raise the spirit and efforts continue to maintain, preserve, develop, and utilize local fruits and vegetables.
"Consumption of people to fruit and vegetables are still low, because it has not reached 40 kg per capita per year. Fact, ideally more than 65 kg per capita per year as in developed countries," said Minister of Agriculture Suswono during a speech at the declaration MPBSN at the Jakarta Convention Center on Sunday (26/5).
According to him, the government continues to increase the competitiveness of fruit and vegetables archipelago through improving the quality and continuity of production, improve the farmers´ access to modern markets by strengthening the supply chain structure, and promote traditional markets and the improve the promotion and marketing both domestically and abroad.
Also present at the event Vice Minister of Agriculture, Rusman Heriawan, Director General of the Ministry of Agriculture Horticulture Hasanuddin Ibrahim; Head of Research and Development of Agriculture, Haryono; Dewi Motik Pramono, and Chairman MPBSN, Ms. Mieke Wahyuni ��Suswono.
"It was conducted by the Ministry of Agriculture to strive for local fruits and vegetables dominate the domestic market amid higher supply of imported fruit," said Suswono.
Declaration MPBSN
Society organizations (CSOs) MPBSN founded on September 19, 2012 in Jakarta. Membership of the various elements of the private good, academics, practitioners and the public.
MPBSN chaired by Ms. Mieke Wahyu Suswono with a current membership of nearly 100 people. Inaugural board MPBSN done in conjunction with the Love Movement Fruits and Vegetables Archipelago in Jakarta, Sunday (26/5).
"One of the action program is a campaign launched by MPBSN love fruit and archipelago through the Declaration of Love Fruits and Vegetables Archipelago will continue to be done to the community through various events and mass media to raise public awareness in increasing fruit and vegetable consumption archipelago," said Ms. Mieke Suswono to B2B.
