Indonesia: Paciran Village produces crabs for export

Published 2022년 2월 24일

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Rajungan Village in East Java, Indonesia, is renowned for its crab fishing industry, with 1,142 members from the Joint Business Group (KUB) producing around 389,250 kg of crabs worth over Rp. 46 billion annually. The village has developed downstream activities and has nine micro-scale Fish Processing Units. The group approach through KUB has improved the community's access to capital, marketing, and government programs, leading to increased benefits and sustainability. The local fishery instructor has encouraged the use of eco-friendly fishing gear and has taught better crab catching and handling techniques, resulting in higher prices for the crab. The village's fishermen now use modern technology like GPS and weather forecasting applications.

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My Farm— Paciran Village, located in Paciran District, Lamongan Regency, East Java Province, is known as Rajungan Village. The reason is that most of the people in the village work as crab fishermen. It is recorded that there are 1,142 fishermen who are members of the Joint Business Group (KUB). Every year, Kampung Rajungan can produce as much as 389,250 kg of crabs with an estimated production value of more than Rp. 46 billion. In fact, crabs from Paciran have managed to penetrate export markets such as the United States, France, Japan, and South Korea. Not only as a crab-producing area, in Paciran Village downstream activities for the crab business have been developed. At least, there are nine micro-scale Fish Processing Units (UPI) that are members of the Processing and Marketer Group (Poklahsar) Easy Rukun and Poklahsar Brotherhood of Fishermen (PIN). Most of the workers are fishermen's wives. The fishery instructor, Toha Muslih, accompanied the Poklahsar to obtain the ...

Source: Pertanianku