Syukur Iwantoro Tengah Malam Sidak ke Peternakan Ayam
Senior Indonesian Official Impromptu Visit Before Midnight
Editor : M. Achsan Atjo
Translator : Dhelia Gani
Bekasi, Jabar (B2B) - Meninggalkan feedloter di Cariu, Kabupaten Bogor, Jawa Barat ternyata Staf Ahli Menteri (SAM) Pertanian Bidang Investasi, Syukur Iwantoro melanjutkan inspeksinya ke peternakan ayam di Bekasi, meskipun kunjungan ke Taruma Cattle Farm Cariu rampung pukul 17:22 WIB dan diperkirakan tiba di Desa Jaya Laksana, Kecamatan Cabangbungin, Bekasi utara.
Setelah melintasi jalan alternatif Cibarusa - Cikarang hingga kawasan industri Jababeka ternyata baru tiba di peternakan ayam yang dikelola operator kandang ayam di bawah binaan Pusat Pelatihan Pertanian Pedesaan Swadaya (P4S) Farida Agung pada pukul 20:05.
Syukur Iwantoro mengatakan maksud dari kunjungan ke peternakan Berkah Group untuk mengetahui ketersediaan ayam di peternakan ayam maupun kemampuan pasokan ke pasar-pasar di Jabodetabek, dan harga jualnya.
"Kita ke Bekasi sekalian menanyakan langsung ke peternak ayam apa masalah yang mereka hadapi. Penyebab harga ayam menjadi mahal, dan apa kendala yang dihadapi para peternak ayam," kata Syukur yang didampingi Sekretaris Direktorat Jenderal Peternakan dan Kesehatan Hewan (PKH) Riwantoro.
Ketua P4S Farida Agung, Mohamad Mujarob mengatakan sekitar 30 peternak dari Berkah Group tetap beternak ayam tanpa libur, kecuali pada Hari Raya Idul Fitri 1436 H, karena para pedagang ayam libur maka kegiatan di peternakan ayam seperti di Desa Jaya Laksana ikut diliburkan, tapi pada hari kedua Lebaran kembali beroperasi seperti biasa.
"Tidak ada masalah apa-apa. Kalau ayam langka, kami bingung. Kami tidak pernah kekurangan ayam dan tidak pernah menahan ayam. Apabila masuk masa panen akan langsung dijual tanpa pernah bermaksud menahan pasokan ke pasar. " Kalau ayam kami tahan malahan kami yang rugi."
Menurut Mujarob, tersedia sekitar 25.000 ekor ayam di peternakannya, dan setiap hari memasok hampir 15.000 ribu ekor ayam ke Cikarang, Bekasi, dan Jakarta.
"Data kami menyebutkan kebutuhan daging ayam di Jabodetabek mencapai 1,4 juta ekor per hari yang dipasok dari enam kabupaten di Jawa Barat yakni Bekasi, Bogor, Karawang, Subang, Purwakarta, Tangerang," kata Syukur, mantan Dirjen PKH.
Bekasi, Indonesia (B2B) - Having visited a feedlots in Cariu district, Bogor regency, West Java province, Indonesia senior official chose to continue its inspection to the Bekasi district is about 40 km. Expert Staff of Minister of Agriculture Sector Investment, Syukur Iwantoro headed to a chicken farms in the village Jaya Laksana, District Cabangbungin, Bekasi north despite leaving feedlots in Cariu at 5:22 pm.
Once through the alternative road Cibarusa - Cikarang and Jababeka industrial area, Mr Iwantoro arrived in chicken farms which is managed by the Rural Agricultural Organization Training Center or p4S Farida Agung at 8:05 p.m.
Mr Iwantoro said the the purpose of the visit to chicken farm of Berkah Group to determine the chicken stock, the ability of supply to markets in Greater Jakarta and the selling price.
"We are into Bekasi to ask chicken farmers about their problems. Why chicken prices soared lately, and what constraints faced by farmers," he said who was accompanied by Secretary of the Directorate General of Livestock and Animal Health, Riwantoro.
The head of P4S Farida Agung, Mohamad Mujarob said about 30 chicken farmers in Berkah Group continue working, except on the Eid after the traders off then activities on the farm is also off.
"No problem. If the chicken is lost in the market, we are confused. We always supply chickens to market, never hold the chicken. When the harvest, we sell without ever intending to hold supplies. If we hold the chicken, we lose money."
According Mujarob, the chicken farms has around 25,000 chickens, and every day supply nearly 15,000 thousand chickens to Cikarang, Bekasi and Jakarta.
"Our data on estimated demand of chicken meat in the Greater Jakarta reaches 1.4 million head per day are supplied from six districts in West Java namely Bekasi, Bogor, Karawang, Subang, Purwakarta, Tangerang," said Mr Iwantoro, former of the Agriculture Ministry´s director general of livestock and animal health.
