WONGSOREJO – Corn produced by Banyuwangi penetrates the international market. Corn processing factory in the village of Bajulmati, Wongsorejo District has succeeded in exporting approx 20 tons of corn to Japan. The first export of corn is likely to continue. Because, Corn from the Wongsorejo District along with the cobs is in demand by the Japanese market. However, Japanese market demand that can not be fulfilled 100 percent.
Because, The factory is still constrained by the supply of corn from farmers. "Our production capacity 100 tons per day. But the incoming corn supply is only up to five tons 10 tons per day,explained the Director of the An-An Corn Mill, An-An Sariayu Space. According to Sariayu, to increase the supply of corn, the factory has disbursed soft loan funds to farmers around the factory. sadly, The soft loans have not succeeded in boosting the supply of se corn- maximum way.
To increase production, Sariayu receives supplies of corn from Situbondo. Even though there are already supplies from outside the district, but that amount has not succeeded in boosting factory production. To increase supply, Sariayu plans to expand to the Banyuwangi area. So far, the supply of corn comes from farmers in the Wongsorejo District and its surroundings.
To overcome that obstacle, Regent Abdullah Azwar Anas asked farmers to produce more corn. Wongsorejo farmers don't have to worry anymore about the marketing of their corn crops. Because right now, there already pa- brik ready for planting- their harvest. "Increase production to improve the welfare of farmers,” he said. before coming to the factory, Regent Anas harvested kasturi tobacco in the same village.
The Regent was quite satisfied with the tobacco production carried out by the Wongsorejo farmers. Head of Agriculture Service, Forestry and Plantation (PKP) Banyuwangi, Ikrori Hudanto revealed, Banyuwangi has 1300 hectare (he has) tobacco plant. From 1.300 ha the land, around 1.017 ha of tobacco is in the District of Wongsorejo. According to Ikrori, there are two types of tobacco plants developed by farmers in Banyuwangi.
The first type of Javanese tobacco, and both types of Musk tobacco. "Around 100 ha of Wongsorejo tobacco products supplied to Sampoerna,” said Ikrori. While the rest of the production, sent to a number of cigarette factories. For the meantime, most of Banyuwangi's tobacco products are sent to Temanggung, Central Java. "The potential of our tobacco, quality is good. Forward, we continue to develop,He said. (radar)
