Banjarmasin, S Kalimantan (ANTARA) - Banjarmasin Agricultural Quarantine encouraged acceleration export of Cavendish bananas which are being cultivated by farmers in the District of Tanah Laut, South Kalimantan.
"We keep providng assistance to farmer groups to increase quality and quantity of agricultural commodity of export, especially Cavendish, which is now very potential to be developed," Head of Banjarmasin Agricultural Quarantine Nur Hartanto said here on Sunday.
Of the many varieties of domestical production of banana, he acknowledged, Cavendish, originally from East Africa, most in demand in the export market.
Some of the demand countries are Japan, China, Singapore, Malaysia, South Korea, Netherland, Australia, and the Middle East.
For this reason, he said, Cavendish banana farming should be developed by farmer groups in South Kalimantan so it produce an abudance of products.
To produce quality production should begin from good management of cultivation to result in demand products and penetrate the export market.
"This is a strategic steps to bolster the acceleration of agricultural export products in South Kalimantan," he pointed out.
Hartanto said that his party continues to assure that every agricultural commodity exported, such as Cavendish, should meets sanitary and phytosanitary standards of the destination country, so there is no refusal or what called as "notification of noncompliance" (NNC).
Meanwhile, Abdul Wahab, an owner of a Cavendish bananas plantation in Suka Ramah Village, Panyipatan Sub-district, Tanah Laut, has succeeded in mass-producing this local premium bananas since June 2022.
"Now we have four Cavendish plantations which production have been able to market needs with high demand," he said.
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