Stabilkan Harga, PT KAI Siapkan Gerbong Khusus Daging Beku
Stabilize Prices, PT KAI Prepare Special Carriage Frozen Meat
Reporter : Gusmiati Waris
Editor : Cahyani Harzi
Translator : Novita Cahyadi
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Jakarta (B2B) - PT Kereta Api Indonesia telah menyiapkan gerbong khusus untuk mengangkut daging sapi dari sentra produsen dalam bentuk daging beku menggunakan cold storage atau pendingin berkapasitas 20 ton. Peternak akan dibebani biaya angkut sebesar Rp300 per kilogram. Langkah tersebut diharapkan dapat menstabilkan kembali harga daging sapi yang melonjak naik.
"Biaya Rp300 per kilogram masih relevan. Daging sapi itu diangkut dari sentra produsen di Jawa Tengah, Jawa Timur dan Bali. Transportasi dengan kereta api membuat standar mutu daging sapi tetap terjaga," kata Direktur Jenderal Peternakan Kementerian Pertanian, Syukur Iwantoro kepada pers di sela kegiatan Gelar Teknologi Sarjana Membangun Desa (SMD) di Jakarta, Jumat (1/3).
Menurutnya, selama ini para belantik (pedagang) mengirimkan sapi hidup menggunakan truk ke Jakarta. Lamanya waktu tempuh kerap membuat sapi menjadi stres dan sakit. "Biaya distribusi pun menjadi mahal."
Terkait pasokan daging sapi dari luar Jawa, menurut Syukur, Kementerian Pertanian telah meminta dukungan maskapai PT Merpati Nusantara Airlines, untuk mengangkut daging beku dari Nusa Tenggara Timur (NTT) dan Sulawesi Selatan.
"Khusus pesawat, daging sapi beku yang diangkut menggunakan pesawat khusus untuk daging kualitas premium," ungkap Dirjen Peternakan.
"Manajemen Merpati mengatakan siap. Justru mereka merespons positif karena selama ini penerbangan dari NTT ke Jakarta yang tadinya kosong jadi terisi."
Jakarta (B2B) - PT Indonesia Railway carriages prepared to transport beef from production centers in the form of frozen meat using cold storage or cold room capacity of 20 tons. Breeders will be charged Rp300 per kilogram payload. Ministry of Agriculture expects these measures to stabilize beef prices recently surged.
"The cost of Rp300 per kilogram is still relevant. Beef was transported from the center of producers in Central Java, East Java and Bali. Transportation by rail made of beef quality standards will be maintained," said Director General of Livestock Ministry of Agriculture, Syukur Iwantoro told reporters on the sidelines Bachelor of Technology Rural Building activity (SMD) in Jakarta, Friday (1/3).
According to him, during this time, traders send of live cattle trucks to Jakarta. The length of travel time often makes cattle become stressed and sick. "Distribution costs becomes expensive."
Related to beef supplies from outside Java, according to Syukur, the Ministry of Agriculture has requested the support airline PT Merpati Nusantara Airlines, to transport frozen meat from East Nusa Tenggara (NTT) and South Sulawesi.
"Special aircraft, frozen beef is transported using a special aircraft for premium quality meat," said Director General of Livestock.
"Merpati Management says it is ready. Instead they responded positively, because during this flight from NTT to Jakarta that was empty to be filled."
