Daging Sapi, Idealnya Terjangkau Konsumen dan Untungkan Peternak

The Beef, Ideally Affordable Prices, and Profitably for Breeders

Reporter : Gusmiati Waris
Editor : Cahyani Harzi
Translator : Dhelia Gani


Daging Sapi, Idealnya Terjangkau Konsumen dan Untungkan Peternak
Menteri Pertanian Suswono di Manado (Foto: Kementan)

Manado (B2B) - Menteri Pertanian Suswono mengaku senang mendapati harga daging khususnya sapi perlahan mulai turun di beberapa daerah, khususny di Manado, Sulawesi Utara yang semula Rp90 ribuan per kg turun menjadi Rp80 ribuan per kg.

"Kita terus mengupayakan harga daging tidak terlalu tinggi tapi juga tidak terlalu murah. Kalau terlampau tinggi harganya, kasihan masyarakat konsumen. Apabila terlalu rendah, kasihan peternak," kata Suswono ketika meninjau rumah potong hewan (RPH) Bailang di Kecamatan Bunaken, Manado, Kamis malam (2/5).

Mentan Suswono menambahkan, kunjungannya ke RPH Bailang untuk memastikan tidak ada sapi betina produktif yang dipotong, serta melihat secara langsung ketersediaan sapi untuk memenuhi kebutuhan masyarakat Manado dan sekitarnya.

Dari hasil pengamatan dan laporan pimpinan dinas pertanian di Sulawesi Utara, kata Suswono, ketersediaan sapi di provinsi tersebut sangat mencukupi untuk memenuhi kebutuhan daerah, bahkan berlebih karena konsumsi daging lebih banyak dipenuhi dari daging babi sekitar 60%. Namun karena kendala transportasi, sapi-sapi dari Sulawesi Utara sulit dikirim ke luar provinsi.

"Kalau tidak ada persoalan transportasi, saya ingin bisa mengirimnya ke Jawa," ungkap Suswono yang didampingi Kepala Dinas Pertanian dan Peternakan Sulawesi Utara Johanes H Panelewen.

Suswono tidak menampik masalah transportasi masih menjadi kendala utama distribusi daging sapi dari satu pulau ke pulau lain. Hal itu, menyebabkan dalam periode tertentu ada kesulitan pasokan daging, terutama di Jakarta dan sekitarnya maupun Jawa Barat.

Padahal jika kendala transportasi dapat di atasi, kata menteri, persoalan tingginya harga daging sapi dapat di atasi. Pasalnya, berdasarkan sensus ternak Badan Pusat Statistik (BPS) jumlah ternak sapi di Indonesia mencapai 14,5 juta ekor. Jumlah itu dapat memenuhi 80%-85% kebutuhan daging sapi di dalam negeri.

“Dengan begitu impor bisa ditekan jumlahnya, hanya untuk menutupi kekurangannya saja,” kata Mentan.

Manado (B2B) - Minister of Agriculture Suswono said he was happy to find the price of meat especially cows gradually began to drop in some areas, particularly in Manado, North Sulawesi, which was originally to Rp90 thousand per kg fell to Rp80 thousand per kg.

"We continue to seek meat prices are not too expensive but not too cheap. If the price is too high, poor consumer society. If too low, poor breeders," said Suswono when review Bailang slaughterhouses in District Bunaken, Manado, on Thursday night (2/5).

Agriculture Suswono added that his visit to RPH Bailang to ensure productive cows are not cut, as well as the availability cows to meet the needs of Manado and surrounding communities.

From the observations and reports of the agricultural bureau leaders in North Sulawesi, said Suswono, availability of cows in the province is sufficient to meet the local needs, even as excess consumption of meat porks more fulfilled about 60%. However, due to transportation constraints, the cows of the North Sulawesi province of hard sending it out.

"If there is no transport problem, I want to send it to Java," said Suswono who accompanied the Head of Department of Agriculture and Livestock of North Sulawesi, Johannes H Panelewen.

Suswono not dismiss the problem of transportation is a major obstacle distribution of beef, from island to island. It was, in a certain period causes no difficulty meat supply, especially in surrounding Jakarta, and West Java.

And if barriers are overcome, the minister said, the price of beef can be controlled. Because, based on livestock census by the Central Statistics Agency (BPS), the number of cattle in Indonesia reached 14.5 million heads. The amount can meet 80% -85% of the beef in the country.

"The amount of meat imports can be suppressed, only to cover the supply shortage in the domestic," said Minister of Agriculture.