Not only focus on industry, services and trade, the City of Potential is also considered to be working on agricultural sector, especially horticulture. One of the commodities considered to have good prospects is pineapple.
Head of Industry and Trade Office of Samarinda Jhoni Bachtiar confirmed this. In addition to producing itself within the city, the capital of East Kalimantan can be a pineapple advanced processing center of the surrounding area. In the meantime, he said, the projection of further processing from the fruit is still limited to the provision of packaging.
"Fruit packaging is very practical. Overseas, people love to make breakfast with fruit. This is where the potential market later, "he said when met Kaltim Post, not long ago.
He said the market share would be for export, either outside the region or abroad. Currently, Jhoni rate, the demand for fruit in the packaging is very high. In addition to optimizing the market, the provision of fresh pineapple packaging center is also believed to give birth to relatively massive employment. Another fresh news amid the onslaught of the issue of termination of employment (PHK) on the Continent Etam.
"It will certainly reduce unemployment. The agricultural sector always absorbs a lot of manpower, "explained the former Head of Capil Samarinda.
Jhoni specifies, the type of pineapple that will be developed later is the local pineapple type. Type it, he said, has the advantage of varieties and have very high economic value. On the other hand, the benefits of harvesting for farmers are equally seductive. Specifically Samarinda, he said, planting production center according to the plan will choose Palaran as a location.
"Local Pineapple to be developed later. This is also so that the projection is profitable for many, from upstream to downstream. In addition to direct consumption, pineapple in packaging can also be exported for further processing in Lampung, before being marketed to Asian and European countries,