98% of Restaurant Menu is of Eggs and Chicken

According to the data, 98% of the food menu at restaurants is of eggs and chicken. Counted totally for Jabodetabek, 1,750,000 kg of chicken is needed per day. This is a fantastic figure in the world of poultry. "We all know, the world of poultry has been monopolized by a handful of large companies. Significantly, ‘genocide’ (stopping small businesses of livestock) is being carried out against small farmers. Thus, in order for them to survive, I always apply the philosophy of a broom stick; being alone can easily break down but unity will make them effective and not easily break down," said Hartono, Chairman of Indonesian Poultry Breeders as a resource person in the talk show IPB Agriculture Expo,  one agenda of IPB’s 50th Anniversary 50th held in cooperation with Bank BRI, (5/9).

 

"Small farmers will be badly hit easily, directly making their businesses shrink and resistance weakened because the losses suffered cut the working capital. This is the fight between the big and the small. We are pushing  in 2013 that a group of animal farmers can be formed because I am confident this is the key. Let’s make a group of animal farmer. If 20 young people, graduates of IPB, establish such a group, it will be very strong," said the animal farmer who has successfully managed 400 members. "Why do we have to unite; because with such a unity it is easy to negotiate with the market. (Mtd)