Agricom.id, JAKARTA – Until now the tea industries nationally face turbulence for the production areas may get narrower about 300o hectares in every single year and also the productivity keeps decreasing. In the end, the tea industries, which were the primadona for hundreds of year should get solutions fast. If it is not, the tea industries would be only memories.

Should they (tea industries) be saved? Chairman of Indonesia Tea Board (Dewan Teh Indonesia), Rachmad Gunadi said that the tea industries nationally needs to be saved. Here are the reasons.

The first, the tea could be taken as the tree of natural area conservation for the characteristic which bonds the soil. The second, he continued, tea is the living source for many people.

“It involves many people and the farmers to develop the plantation,” Rachmad said in the forum group discussion (FGD) Teh, within the theme, Strategi Pengembangan Agribisnis Teh dalam Rangka Peningkatan Ekspor 4 Kali,” in PIA Hall, Ministry of Agriculture, where Agricom.id did attend, Thursday (27/2/2020).

The third, tea is the world commodity; the fourth, it could re-generate ‘lumintu’ income. The fifth, the technique and the production technology are mastered; the sixth, the domestic premium tea keeps growing. “The seventh, the potential production could be boosted,” he said. (A2)