Because Jengkol Varieties Also Need To Be Patented

Aceh Jaya Head of Food Crops and Horticulture, Fadlon Mirza (Photo via Antara)

JAKARTA - The Aceh Jaya Regency Government officially has a type of jengkol (latin: archidendron pauciflorum). The variety is Jengkol Lembah Kuali and the name has been patented by the local Agriculture Service.

The local variety of Jengkol Lembah Kuali has been registered to the Ministry of Agriculture, Center for Plant Variety Protection and Agricultural Licensing under number:1757/PVL/2021.

"Currently Aceh Jaya already has the jengkol lembah kuali variety and by the end of 2022 we will have our own jengkol seeds with the Aceh Jaya brand and can compete with other districts," said Aceh Jaya Food Crops and Horticulture Head, Fadlon Mirza in Calang, Thursday. March 10 quoted from Antara.

So in total, Aceh Province has two jengkol varieties whose varieties have been patented. Namely Aceh Jaya with the names Jengkol Lembah Kuali and Jengkol Abdya.

According to him, the patenting of the variety was done because the market share in the Horticulture sector, including jengkol, continued to increase, so his party also claimed that Aceh Jaya had its own product, namely Jengkol Lembah Kuali.

"If we don't claim this variety, in the future our products may be taken by other parties so that there will be no more varieties with us having our own products. In the future, other people can also take varieties or seeds from us, Aceh Jaya and the aim is to increase Aceh Jaya's PAD," he said

He also conveyed that giving the variety is not as easy as turning the palm of the hand, but there is a process that must be passed, both observation and monitoring in the field and there is also a single parent tree (PIT) which will later be checked by a team from the Food Crop Seed Control Center to see if it is suitable or not released for the Aceh Jaya variety.