Beef Import Going Down
Economy February 19th, 2010
In the last three years beef offal imports has decreased from the original on the 58.25% in 2006 now live 14.2% of the portion of the national beef imports in 2009.
Director of Veterinary Public Health Directorate General of Livestock Ministry of Agriculture, Turni Rusli Syamsudin, in Jakarta, Saturday (9 / 1), said the decrease was caused since 2007 the government banned the import of some types of offal such as the intestines, tripe and lungs. “Since 2007 the eight types of offal imports initially allowed to stay only two that still allowed the heart and liver,” he said.
Banning the import of these types of offal, he said, was a protest from a number of countries that become exporters of meat into Indonesia namely Australia, New Zealand, Canada and the United States.
In those countries, he said, offal is not consumed and only used as animal feed or as a product of “junk” that sold cheap. “Therefore, through Permentan (Regulation of the Minister of Agriculture) No. 64 Year 2006 and updated with Permentan No. 20 of 2009 we finally allow only imports of two types of offal,” said Turni.
He revealed in 2004 of total imports of beef products as much as 48.3 thousand tons of 36.5 thousand tons or 75.3% of beef offal which is purely only 11.8 thousand tons.
Meanwhile, the share of imports in 2006, although the amount of offal was 36.5 thousand tons, but the percentage decrease of only 58.5% of total imports of meat as much as 62.4 thousand tons, the remainder of 25.9 thousand tons of pure meat. Whereas in 2007 the import of offal only 13.8 thousand tons or 21.6% of the total imports of meat as much as 64.0 thousand tons while 50.2 thousand tons of meat.
In 2009 the portion of imports of meat has increased to reach 64.1 thousand tons of a total of 74.7 thousand tons of imported contrary to the innards stay decreased 14.2% or 10.6 thousand tons.
Meanwhile, imports of meat during the offensive in 2009, Turni said, an increase compared to 2008 which is 74.7 thousand tons from the previous 70.1 thousand tons. As for 2010, the government is targeting meat imports will decrease at least 15% compared to last year.
