Hasil Produksi Petani Keerom Dikirim ke Blitar

Untuk pertama kalinya dalam sejarah setelah resmi menjadi sebuah wilayah administratif di Indonesia, Kabupaten Keerom akhirnya mengapalkan hasil produksi tani perdana ke Blitar, Provinsi Jawa Timur. 

Sebanyak 15,5 ton jagung kering tersebut, dilepas oleh Pjs. Bupati Keerom M. Ridwan Rumasukun, dari Pelabuhan Jayapura, Rabu (25/11/2020) petang. 

Pengiriman perdana hasil produksi petani Arsopura, Distrik Skanto, Keerom tersebut,  tersebut disaksikan Kepala Perwakilan BI Provinsi Papua, Kepala Balai Karantina Pertanian Kelas 1 Jayapura, GM PT. Pelindo IV Cabang Jayapura. 

Pjs Bupati Keerom Ridwan Rumasukun memastikan pengiriman jagung kering ke Blitar tidak hanya berhenti sampai disini. Namun bakal terus berlanjut meski dirinya sudah tak lagi bertugas di Keerom.

Ia pun memastikan, program yang berjalan di Keerom tersebut, bakal diadopsi Pemerintah Provinsi Papua untuk menggerakan daerah lainnya di bumi cenderawasih, memasarkan hasil produksi masing-masing sesuai komoditas unggulan mereka.

“Artinya produksi komoditas di masing-masing daerah yang tidak habis untuk konsumsi lokal, akan didorong untuk dijual ke luar Papua. Sehingga harapannya bisa mendapat nilai tambah bagi petani tetapi juga PAD,” kata ia.

Diketahui, jagung kering yang dijual sekilo Rp4.000 tersebut, merupakan wujud nyata dari realokasi dan recofusing ABPD, dalam upaya pemulihan ekonomi masyarakat di tengah pandemi Covid-19. 

Kepala Dinas Pertanian dan Perikanan Keerom, Sunar katakan, 15,5 ton jagung tessebut merupakan hasil kerja kelompok tani beranggotakan 18 orang.

Bahkan dari 12 hektar lahan jagung, masih ada 3 hektar yang belum dipanen. “Artinya, saat ini hasil panen jagung para petani masih tersedia sebanyak 60 ton dan ditambah ada panen setiap tiga minggu sekali”. 

“Tentunya, kita akan terus mendorong supaya proses pengiriman jagung kering ke Blitar dilakukan secara berkesinambungan,” pungkasnya.

For the first time in history after officially becoming an administrative region in Indonesia, Keerom Regency finally sent the first agricultural products to Blitar, East Java Province.

A total of 15.5 tons of dried corn was released by the Regent of Keerom M. Ridwan Rumasukun, from Jayapura Port, Wednesday (11/25/2020) evening.

The first shipment of Arsopura farmers' products, Skanto District, Keerom, was witnessed by the Head of BI Representative of Papua Province, Head of Agriculture Quarantine Center Class 1 Jayapura, GM PT. Pelindo IV Jayapura Branch.

Regent of Keerom Ridwan Rumasukun ensured that the shipment of dried corn to Blitar did not only stop here. But it will continue even though he is no longer in charge at Keerom.

He also ensured that the program, which runs in Keerom, will be adopted by the Papua Provincial Government to move other regions, marketing their products according to their superior commodities.

"This means that commodity production in each region, which is not exhausted for local consumption, will be encouraged to be sold outside Papua. So that the hope can get added value for farmers but also PAD," he said.

It is known that dried corn sold for 4,000 IDR is a tangible manifestation of regional budget reallocation and refocusing, in an effort to recover people's economy in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic.

Head of the Keerom Agriculture and Fisheries Office, Sunar said, 15.5 tons of corn is the result of the work of a farmer group of 18 people.

Even from 12 hectares of cornfields, there are still 3 hectares that have not been harvested. "That is, currently the maize harvest of farmers is still available as much as 60 tons and plus there is a harvest every three weeks".

"Of course, we will continue to encourage the process of sending dried corn to Blitar on an ongoing basis," he concluded.