Existing Opportunities of Local Fruits in the World Market

Fruit of Nusantara was highly desirable in the world community, but unfortunately Indonesia had not taken this role. “In Germany for example, they ask tropical fruits. They are bored with apples and kiwi, it is very potential. Unfortunately, the ones that are being able to capture this potential are Vietnam and Thailand, Indonesia is not yet,” said Billionaire Farmer, Gun Soetopo, who was usually familiarly called Pakde Gun as a resource person of the activity of Fruit Got Talent (FGT) 2015, Saturday (28/11) in IPB Internatonal Convention Center (IICC), Bogor. 

 

Pakde Gun explained, Indonesia was actually benefited from the fruir commodity that the community itself was less too fond, but rather it was favored by European society. “Our fruit is generally slighly sour, this is precisely what they want. If the criteria of Indonesian in selecting fruit is large, sweet and cheap. They must be colored and the tastes were sour,” explained Alumni of IPB.

 

Pakde Gun also invited the entrepreneurs in order not to give up to the situation and to utilize all available resources. In the cultivation of dragon fruit for example, Pakde Gun no longer recommended to use the ideal land. “Open karst land, open disposal land mine that much is left in Kalimantan and Papua. We can use it,” he said to the participants.

 

Fruit Got Talent (FGT) 2015 was the event of channeling the entrepreneurial talent in the field of the fruit of Nusantara where the participants created the fruit business planning, and it was opened to the public. FGT 2015 was held as one of a series of activities of Festival of Fruit and Flowers of Nusantara (FBBN) 2015. In this event, it was also organized the business coaching followed by the entire participants of FGT 2015. The business coaching moderated by Chairman of Expert of Alumni Associations of IPB, Dr.Ir. Dwi Asmono, also presented Chief Strategy Consultant Arrbey Consulting Firm, Dr. Handito Joewono and the representative of BNI, Uus Kadarusman S.E, M.Si which gave the socialization of the people business credit. (as)