Monday, June 23, 2008

Brebes centres of the seaweed cultivation

The Brebes regency was the area that had the area of the fishpond was expanded in Central Java that is measuring 9.970,5 hectare, with the number of fishpond farmers (petambak) totalling 4,042 people.

The product that is cultivated generally was the milkfish and prawns.

Iskandar explained, Brebes currently becomes centres of the seaweed cultivation in the Javanese Island.

Was based on results of the survey and the mapping that were carried out by the Perikanan Service and Marine, the area of the area of the fishpond that was potential for the seaweed cultivation reached 2.500 hectare.

Now the fishpond land that has been made use of petambak for the new seaweed cultivation measuring 117 hectare, that was spread from the Brebes Subdistrict to Losari.

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Salah Seorang the farmer at the same time pe-ngepul seaweed, Amen Yulianto said petambak in Randusanga Kulon that was bundled into the Tani Rukun Sejahtera Group has cleared the seaweed cultivation since the last four years.

The number of productions of seaweed now just reached 30 ton/the month.

In fact, the requirement for the industry as the raw material so that-so that, peppermints and cosmetics reached 500 ton/the month.

So, he dared to accommodate seaweed from the other area like Bekasi, West Java.

Amen said for the area measuring one hectare the fishpond only needed urea fertiliser totalling 20 kg.

To pe-nyebaran the first seed, just could dipanen first when the crop has been four months old.

Further, could dipanen each two months very much with the period during four years.

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