CIDISS-Regent of Pulang Pisau, Central Kalimantan, H Edy Pratowo asking for support from the Central Government to assist the fishermen who are in the coastal area and the farmers of the existing pool of fish farming in the area.
“The limitations of the budget that we have, of course not all the proposals of the fishermen and farmers fish farming ponds we can accommodate, so the need for support is provided by the Central Government,” said Edy Pratowo, as in Antaranews kalteng.com.
According to him, in addition to agriculture and livestock are already getting priority as winning field, Government of Pulang Pisau are also glanced at the fishery to be developed in the community’s economic rise.
Fisheries sector, he said, have considerable potential in the coastal region where the fishermen continue to provide encouraging catches and fish supplier to a number of areas in Central Kalimantan and South Kalimantan.
And now, the fishermen are still experiencing various obstacles such as the lack of adequate capture equipment, as well as the results of marketing still dominated the middleman so that the fishermen are still not really enjoy the results. The local government, said Edy Pratowo, seeks to develop this fishery can prosper for society.
He also said, trying to develop fish landing Base (PPI), which in the local site has been equipped with cool storage that such facilities are provided for maintaining the quality and the quality of the catches of the fishermen.
He is also planning to develop coastal areas with potential inside it. One of them is doing the construction to the community with complete facilities to produce Bandeng Presto as a superior product. While obstacles are often a complaint and constraints of farmers and peasants farmed fish cultivation pond was the lack of availability of fish feed processing machines.