PMK Outbreak Makes Panic Selling, Breeders Massive Price Discounts: Cows Slaughtered Forcibly From IDR 25 Million Can Be Sold For IDR 8 Million

JAKARTA - The mouth and nail disease (PMK) epidemic that infects livestock has spread to 19 provinces and 222 regencies/cities in the country. This condition raises concerns, resulting in the phenomenon of panic selling in the middle of the farm.

In fact, farmers sell their livestock for 15 percent lower than the normal price.

Chairman of the Association of Indonesian Cattle and Buffalo Breeders (PPSKI) Nanang said that the Eid al-Adha moment is the moment that farmers have been waiting for. However, we did not expect the FMD outbreak to appear.

Initially, said Nanang, the breeders were not so worried when the government announced the outbreak of FMD in East Java and Aceh. However, in its development the FMD virus spread very massively.

This condition, said Nanang, shocked the small and large-scale livestock business actors. "Eiduladha, where farmers should enjoy a price increase of 10 to 25 percent from the normal price, is forced to decrease by 10 to 15 percent if we get information from business actors in the region," he said in a virtual discussion, Thursday, June 30.

Nanang also said that there are many obstacles that must be faced by farmers at this time. For example, a cow that is about to be sacrificed suddenly becomes infected with FMD. In fact, it is the cow that has been in DP or has been paid.

"All you have to do is send it before the D-Day of Eid al-Adha, it turns out that it was exposed and couldn't be sent. This is hard," he said.

Meanwhile, said Nanang, farmers are also experiencing problems with livestock that are still healthy. This is because the cattle have entered the exposed zone. So that livestock cannot be sent outside the area such as the big cities of Jakarta, Bandung and so on.

"So and this creates what is called panic selling, so farmers are forced to sell around their cages at very alarming prices," he explained.

The warning condition, said Nanang, was experienced by farmers when their cattle were exposed and even had to be forcibly slaughtered because they could not be saved. This is because the selling price will drop far from the normal market price.

"Not to mention if those who are exposed and cannot be saved are forced to be forcibly slaughtered. Forcibly slaughtered the price drop is extraordinary, cattle whose price ranges from around Rp. 25 million have dropped to Rp. 10 million, Rp. 8 million, which really makes the farmers really hit hard," he said. .