DPR Minta Pemerintah Bangun Sentral Produksi Daging Sapi

Parliament Urge the Government to Establish Beef Production Centers

Reporter : Gusmiati Waris
Editor : Heru S Winarno
Translator : Novita Cahyadi


DPR Minta Pemerintah Bangun Sentral Produksi Daging Sapi
Sentra ternak di Jawa Timur (Foto: metrotvnews.com)

Jakarta (B2B) - Dewan Perwakilan Rakyat (DPR) meminta pemerintah membangun sentral produksi daging sapi di beberapa daerah, untuk mendukung pencapaian swasembada daging pada 2014 dan mempermudah distribusi sehingga harga daging sapi menjadi terjangkau.

Anggota Komisi IV DPR, Viva Yoga menilai mahalnya harga daging saat ini dikarenakan faktor distribusi yang mahal sehingga mendongkrak harga daging di sejumlah daerah. Pemerintah seharusnya melakukan sensus sapi lokal yang akurat, sehingga dapat mengetahui jumlah konsumsi dan jumlah sapi dalam negeri menjadi data yang lebih akurat.

Menurut Viva, kendala tersebut dapat diatasi dengan membangun sentral produksi di titik-titik regional seperti Sumatera, Jawa Barat, Sulawesi dan juga kawasan lainnya.

"Sentral produksi harus mendekati konsumen dari sisi itu diupayakan bisa mempercepat proses swasembada harga daging sapi yang rendah, kan sekarang harga daging sangat tinggi dan luar biasa," kata Viva Yoga.

Dia menambahkan, pemerintah harus melakukan sensus sapi lokal yang akurat sehingga dapat mengetahui jumlah konsumsi dan jumlah sapi dalam negeri agar datanya lebih akurat.

"Banyak populasi sapi yang tidak dirujuk pada program swasembada atau peternakan pribadi milik peternak," ucapnya.

Jakarta (B2B) - House of Representatives (DPR) asked the government to establish a central beef production in some areas, to support the achievement of self-sufficiency in meat in 2014, and facilitate the distribution thus the price of beef to be affordable.

Members of the House of Representatives Commission IV, Viva Yoga judge, the high price of meat today, because of the distribution of driving up the price of meat in some areas. The government should conduct an accurate census of the local beef, so knowing the amount of consumption and the number of cattle in the country becomes more accurate data.

According Viva, these obstacles can be overcome by building a central production at regional points like Sumatra, West Java, Sulawesi and other regions.

"Central production should approach it in terms of the consumer attempted to accelerate the process of self-sufficiency in beef prices are low, because the price of meat is very high and unusual," said Viva Yoga.

He added that the government must do an accurate census of the local beef, so as to know the amount of consumption and the number of cattle in the country that more accurate data.

"Many cattle population that is not referenced in the self-sufficiency program or a private ranch owned by farmers," he said.