Banana Aroma Dusun Serangan Temanggung Penetrates New Zealand Market

Banana snack products aroma Mahkota from Sarangan Hamlet, Gesing Village, Kandangan District, Temanggung Regency (Photo: ANTARA)

TEMANGGUNG - Banana snack products aroma Mahkota from Sarangan Hamlet, Gesing Village, Kandangan District, Temanggung Regency, Central Java, penetrated the New Zealand market.

"Delivery of mahkota aroma bananas to New Zealand is not from us directly, but through a sales agent in Sidoarjo, East Java," said mahkota aroma banana manufacturer Endang Srimul Subekti in Temanggung reported by Antara, Wednesday, May 12.

He said he did not know the exact number of deliveries to New Zealand. Only from sales agents in Sidoarjo, every 2 weeks ask to be delivered banana aroma products as much as one quarter. Ahead of Eid al-Fitr, this demand has increased to 3 quarters.

Banana aroma is a snack product whose raw materials are bananas, wheat flour, sugar, and salt. The way of making it, flour is made like the skin of lompia then sprinkled with bananas cut into small pieces and sugar then rolled and fried.

"Banana tastes sweet, smells very fragrant, tasty, and crispy for snacks," he said.

According to him, the marketing of banana aroma has spread in a number of areas in Central Java, East Java, West Java, DKI Jakarta, Bali, Lampung, and Kalimantan.

He mentioned the price of banana aroma Crown Rp24,000 per kilogram, for packaging 250 grams Rp8,000, and packaging 450 grams Rp13,000.

"In order to increase the selling value of products, we continue to improve packaging, not only using ordinary plastic packaging but also using jars and aluminum foil. We should be proud of Indonesia," he said.