BLIMBINGSARI- Nurma Yunita, 31, from Jatisari Hamlet, Desa Bomo, Blimbingsari District, this is quite creative. The mother of one child is able to turn papaya leaves into quite valuable items. Since 10 last year, The young mother made papaya leaves into ingredients for herbal cigarettes. And the price turned out to be amazing too, for one kilogram can penetrate Rp 15 thousand.
"I've already 10 years of producing papaya leaves into herbal cigarettes,said Nurma Yunita. Yunita said it was quite easy to produce papaya leaves. The method, Young papaya leaves with a yellowish color are chopped into small pieces. Then it is heated to dry.
“Then sprayed with boiled sugar water," he explained. After spraying with sugar water, Papaya leaves are folded like folding clothes and packed in a big plastic bag. "Cultivating papaya leaves is almost the same as processing tobacco", it's just that the tobacco is dried using idek, if the papaya leaves are dried in the sun, use a tarp and then decomposed until evenly distributed, " he said.
Papaya leaves produced, by Yunita usually paid to a number of cigarette factories in Semarang and Surabaya. “This papaya leaf is not only for herbal cigarettes, also for herbs or herbal medicine,” he said while mentioning that he also produces tobacco.(radar)