Breeding Lele Dumbo
Lele dumbo (Clarias gariepinus) originally considered one eye. However, the freshwater fishery commodities is now transformed into a cottage industry. The value of trade each year reaching more than Rp 1 trillion, employment, value added, and the resulting effect multyplier great too.
Various types of catfish-related businesses was widespread, ranging from industrial feed (pellets), Germination, cultivation, trade, until the processing of food made from raw catfish are generally home-based scale.
Consumers catfish are also widespread. From the village to the city. Not only the common people who ate at the stalls with chili paste and Lalapan, but extended to secondary consumers.
Changes in social status of this catfish commodities has stimulated the growth of business innovation in food processing technology. There Kremes fried catfish, catfish meatballs, wet noodle catfish, smoked catfish, abon catfish, rolade catfish, until pizza catfish.
Because of the huge potential, no less than President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono joined support-based business development with the campaign dumbo catfish eating catfish.
Consumption Increased.
Director General of Aquaculture Ministry of Marine Affairs and Fisheries Made L Nurdjana, in Sukabumi, West Java, express, catfish rising consumption and automatically processed products to encourage increased domestic production of catfish. In 2008 alone live catfish production to consumption reached 108,200 tons.
By calculating per kilogram of catfish consumption measures were eight tails, at least within a year of national catfish production reached 868.6 billion or 2.37 billion tails tails per day. If dirupiahkan, catfish production of 108,200 tons per year were valued at Rp 1.41 trillion, assuming the price of catfish consumption Rp 13.000 per kilogram.
Not yet calculated the economic value that caused the catfish business, both from the aspect of off-farm and production facilities, such as food production, medicine, materials ponds, fertilizing.
The greater the longer the economic cycle when calculating how many millions of merchants around the country thanks to catfish, either in the form of tents and stalls of processed products. Also, how much labor is absorbed both upstream and downstream levels, and trade.
Today the demand for catfish is also not just come from within the country. Consumers in the United States and Europe also had glanced catfish. Similarly, Singapore and Malaysia.
Undertow
The development of “industrialization” populist-based dumbo catfish are grown from accidental below. When catfish dumbo in Indonesia a few decades ago, the public interest against the kind of catfish this one tends to negative.
At that time people did not like the catfish that disgusting impression. Slimy skin reminds consumers that certain animal species such as eels slither.
Adaptation ability of a water beast is being able to live in dirty water environment has shifted even though the public perception of the commodities that seem obscene catfish.
However, as the weakening purchasing power due to various economic pressures, catfish increasingly in demand. In addition to high protein low.
Pecel phenomenon growing catfish catfish’s image boosted in the eyes of society. Eating catfish is no longer shameful. In Yogyakarta, pecel catfish became a favorite meal for affordable student. Lele dumbo needs in Yogyakarta 10-15 tons per day.
Slowly and surely, catfish demand continues to rise. When the year 2004, the production of catfish farming only 51,271 tons per year, the year 2005 rose to 69,386 tons, in 2006 (77,272 tons), 2007 (91,735 tons), and 2008 (108,200 tons).
Director of Research and Strategic Studies, Bogor Agricultural University (IPB) Arif Satria revealed, catfish is a cottage industry. Is like a sleeping giant (sleeping giant), can be cultivated anyone.
What is needed now is a food technology innovation. Because now the largest consumption of catfish in the form of dumbo more fresh, yet many of the processed products. If not immediately developed based processed food industry catfish, oversupply will occur and this will endanger the sustainability of business.
“If you wait for food processing technology innovations from the community, take a long time.Government policy, universities, and research institutes in the field of food to the point there, “he said.
Dumbo catfish industry-based small business people are obviously more resilient.
