Kutai Kertanegara Dragon Fruit Farmers Return to Production

REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, KUTAI KERTANEGARA - Fruit agribusiness development provides added value for farmers while maintaining nutritional balance for the community. After being hit by a disease a few years ago, now the dragon fruit of Kutai Kertanegara is starting to writhe again. The Minister of Agriculture, Syahrul Yasin Limpo has always directed to continue to increase production through extensification and intensification or development of existing areas and maintenance of existing plants through the application of environmentally friendly advanced cultivation technologies that refer to GAP and SOP, as well as the selection of fruit types that have good market prospects. domestic, especially the export market. The cultivation of Kutai Kertanegara (Kukar) dragon fruit has begun to appear again in Samboja, Loa Janan and Sebulu Districts with a total area of 152.25 hectares (ha) and production reaching 703.6 tons. One of the uniqueness of the dragon fruit garden in Kutai Kartanegara ...