TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - UD Surya Abadi, a Karawang-based firm that processed duck and salted egg gradually increased the export rate of its products to the neighboring country, Singapore. Currently, the firm had exported a total of 17,000 salted eggs of 2 tons in weight worth IDR 45 million.
"The delivery will continue to increase up to 100,000 pieces [of salted egg], the total export reaches IDR 270 million," said Rully Lesmana, UD Surya Abadi owner, in a written statement released by Agriculture Ministry on Thursday, October 25, 2018.
UD Surya Abadi was the only exporter of salted egg that successfully entered the Singapore markets since November 2012. The firm was initially delivered 60,000 pieces of salted eggs, and back in 2014 and 2015, it delivers 8,000 and 32,000 eggs, respectively.
Fini Murfiani, the Director for Processing and Marketing of Livestock of the Ministry of Agriculture, said that the ministry had monitored the trade of salted eggs. Fini expected that businesses such as UD Surya Abadi could get an adequate supply of raw materials, so it could meet the consumers' demand.
Other than to Singapore, the Agriculture Ministry determined to help the entrepreneurs of Indonesian salted egg to enter the Hong Kong and Brunei Darussalam market. Fini estimated that the demand on salted eggs would gradually increase in line with the development of salted egg culinary products. "Indonesia will not waste this export potential," Fini concluded.
FAJAR PEBRIANTO
