Many people are tempted by fantastic price, per kg. The high price backfired, many of the rattan cutters felled. Cutting the jernang into a shortcut to earn big profits. Jernang grows up to a height of 25 meters. To get the fruit at the top, it is not easy. Therefore, 'Jernang is threatened with extinction,' said Drs Yana Sumarna MSi, a researcher at the Forest Research and Nature Conservation Center, Bogor, West Java.
Gum Jernang is a kind of rattan forest (not wood) which is taken from the skin of the sap fruit for a particular purpose. The fruit is like a rattan fruit, small rounds gather like a fruit bark. Jernang is a vine on the surrounding trees.
In the gum contains the compound dracoresen (11%), draco resinolanol (56%), draco alban (2.5%) the remainder is benzoate acid and bensolactic acid. Gum is commonly used as a mixture of diarrhea, dysentery and blood clotting due to injury, as a raw material of porcelain dyes, marble dyes, leather tanning materials, lipstick raw materials and others.
This is needed by China, Thailand, Singapore, Hongkong where they need more than 400 tons of sap per year. Indonesia currently can export sap jernang only 27 tons per year and even some of the fruit search results from the jernang forest. The spread of jernang in Indonesia is in the forests of the island of Sumatra (Aceh, Jambi, inland Riau) and Kalimantann (Pontianak).
allegedly jernang only found in three countries in the world namely India, Malaysia and Indonesia, so sap jernang become very expensive. From 100 kg of fruit obtained jernang 3.5 kg sap jernang with price per kg currently reached 1, 2 million rupiah. The most expensive type is the jenang type of dragon's blood. Currently if you want to cultivate jernang can be taken from jernang tillers in the forest or directly from seeds jernang.
Because jernang is a creeping plant it needs a protective tree as a vine creepers. This is very beneficial to farmers if the tree species also produce rubber trees. In addition to the results of rubber tree rubber sapping, farmers can also sell sap jernang so as to increase the income of farmers.
Currently the new cultivated in Jambi province, so the result of jernang in Indonesia from cultivation is still very small. That is, it is an opportunity for investment. As the current picture of 1 ha of crops can produce 35 to 38 million per year. This becomes an additional opportunity for farmers who want to cultivate it.
