Minister Trenggono Targets Shrimp Estate In NTT To Generate 55,000 Tons Of Shrimp

Minister of KP Sakti Wahyu Trenggono (photo: dock. VOI)

JAKARTA - Minister of Maritime Affairs and Fisheries (KP) Sakti Wahyu Trenggono targets that the large-scale shrimp farming program in the Waingapu area, Sumba, East Nusa Tenggara (NTT), can produce up to 55,000 tons of shrimp.

This was conveyed by Trenggono in the agenda of the 2024 Investment National Coordination Meeting (Rakornas) which was monitored virtually, Wednesday, November 11.

"What we will also develop in the Eastern region, (namely) the island of Sumba covering an area of approximately 2,000 hectares with a production of approximately 55,000 tons," said Trenggono.

Trenggono assessed that this shrimp estate program needed to be carried out in order to increase upstream industrial production.

Based on the presentation shown, there will be six benefits from this large-scale shrimp cultivation scheme program. First, as a benchmark for a modern and sustainable cultivation model. Second, turning unproductive land into productive with a productivity of 55 tons per hectare/cycle.

Third, creating jobs for 4,730 people (2,100 on-farm workers). Fourth, creating an investment climate in the upstream and downstream sectors. Fifth, namely improving the welfare of local communities and finally increasing foreign exchange, taxes and non-tax state revenues (PNBP).

"We continue to develop this to the eastern region to strengthen the upstream sector. Hopefully, the downstream will become even stronger to support the Ministry of Investment and Downstream," he said.

Previously, Spokesperson for the Minister of Maritime Affairs and Fisheries Wahyu Muryadi said the KKP would begin to develop shrimp estate work in the Waingapu area, Sumba, NTT, in October 2024.

"The project value is around Rp. 7 trillion. It is hoped that before October 2024 the process of construction can begin," Wahyu told VOI, Thursday, January 25.

According to Wahyu, the development of available estates in the area will not interfere with the mangrove ecosystem. This is because the land that will be used does not have the mangrove forest.

"If in Waingapu it will not damage the environment because it has implemented a standard of sustainable fish cultivation according to a feasibility study. And there is no mangrove forest," he said.

The KKP has built a shrimp estate in Kebumen, Central Java, in 2023.

Kebumen Regency was chosen as a modeling for shrimp estate because it has a fairly good potential for shrimp pond areas. The Shrimp estate was built on an area of 100 hectares (ha).

As many as 60 percent of the construction of the shrimp estate has been realized, which is around 60 ha containing 149 pond plots that are equipped with the main infrastructure.

These infrastructures include water intake, reservoirs, maintenance plots, IPAL channels, laboratories, feed warehouses, production facilities warehouses, post-harvest buildings, generator houses, pond guard houses and production roads.