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Four Nutmegs with 20-30 mm long . one of
them had been resped in order to show
the inside. (http://food.ndtv.com/)
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Nutmeg is one of agriculture outcomes that
has been produced by Indonesia farmers so far this year. It also becomes one of
export products of agriculture which has been exported to three major
continents such as EUROPE, AMERICA and AFRICA. And it has contributed millions
of dollar so far .in early August 2014, Sumatra province had exported 70 tonnes
of nutmeg those continents with contributed $ 823.125 according to CIPUTRANEWS.
It is a sign that nutmeg can be developed further
in the next future. In addition, Indonesia is a country with soil that very
comply with requires land to growth nutmeg. To make nutmeg agriculture growth further,
it needs strong effort from the governments, society till experts in which all
of stakeholders working together to improve the management and quality nutmeg.
In couple days ago, Euro zone has banned
nutmeg from Indonesia in which it had said “nutmeg from Indonesia has the spice
exceeded the safety limits for aflatoxin, a natural toxin produced by certain
species of fungi which can cause liver failure. in which Indonesian nutmeg
contains 200 part per billion aflatoxin far higher than standard euro-zone with
required limit of 15 part per billion “ . Retrieved from Jakartaglobe.com this caused actually avoidable, if the
government sensitives about the way of their nutmeg farmers grow the nutmeg in which many nutmeg farmers commonly use
higher water content to cultivate nutmeg that allow the toxic fungi growth.
Banning export Indonesia nutmeg from Europe
zone, it will have huge effect for Indonesia if the government do not address
it immediately. The effect will hit the nutmeg farmers as well as state
revenue. For instance, Europe zone known as one of the zone which implicates
the highest standard safety foods or food materials if the Europe zone come out
warning or in fact banning of nutmeg import from Indonesia it will effect in
other zones such AFRICA, AMERICA which it will trigger them to review the
nutmeg import from Indonesia as well. If the foreign demands decline significantly
because of this, farmer’s incomes, tax of export till state revenue also will
decline significantly.
To address this problem, all stakeholder
need to working together and the government makes useful programs for the
farmer such as free educations about the cultivating nutmeg collaborates with
experts or universities and another program that can upgrade knowledge of
farmers in order to create quality nutmeg .
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