Zairla Charcoal Indonesia – Coconut, a plant with a million benefits that every part of the plant has a use value for life. Coconut, a plant with a million benefits, every part of which has a use value for life. The benefits of Indonesian Coconut are numerous.
Records from the Ministry of Agriculture (Kementan) through the Agricultural Quarantine Agency (Barantan) say that there are at least 13 varieties of coconut-derived commodities that have sold in the global market. The global export of processed coconut products has penetrated dozens of destination countries spread across 6 continents, ranging from Asia, Europe, Australia, Africa, North America, to South America.
According to the Indonesian Agricultural Quarantine Agency, almost all parts of the coconut have been exported, ranging from coconut meat, coconut water, coconut shell, coconut coir, to coconut trunk.
From the IQFAST system, the facilitation of export certification of processed coconut products was recorded in the pandemic period, namely January-May 2020, reaching 463.5 thousand tons to dozens of countries spread across 6 continents.
Not only Indonesia, there are also 4 other countries producing processed coconut in the world, namely the Philippines, India, Brazil and Sri Lanka. But for now, from Barantan’s records throughout 2020, India has imported processed coconut from Indonesia as much as 59.3 thousand tons, Brazil reached 1.2 thousand tons. In other words, Indonesia occupies the number one position of processed coconut in the world.
Where are coconut plantations distributed in Indonesia?
According to data from the Ministry of Agriculture in 2017, the coconut plantation area in Indonesia by island is dominated by Sumatra Island with 1.05 million hectares (32.90%), followed by Java Island with 781.67 thousand hectares (23.2%) and Sulawesi Island with 781.23 thousand hectares (22.49%). Furthermore, the islands of Papua and Maluku, Bali and Nusa Tenggara, and Kalimantan each have a coconut plantation area of 376.64 thousand hectares (10.9%), 273.09 thousand hectares (7.86%), and 203.94 thousand hectares (5.87%).
Seeing the wide distribution of coconut plantations means that Indonesia has great potential in the export sector. Given, coconut plants are also one of the country’s foreign exchange earning plantation commodities, a source of local revenue (PAD), as well as a source of income for plantation farmers and the community.
The best option is to make Indonesia a coconut commodity developer in the world.
Source: https://indonesiabaik.id/infografis/kelapa-indonesia-tanaman-sejuta-manfaat-yang-mendunia
