Supply chain management of passion fruit in South Sulawesi: Linking smallholders to market
Burhanuddin Zein
Program and Abstracts, 4th International Symposium on Tropical and Subtropical Fruits, November 3-7 2008, Bogor, Indonesia. 215 pages.
2008
บทคัดย่อ
Supply chain management of passion fruit in South Sulawesi: Linking smallholders to market
Passion fruit plantations currently contain either purple passion fruit (Passiloraedulisvar. edulis) or yellow passion fruit (Passifloraedulisvar. flavicarpaDegener). In South Sulawesi, it has been recently noted that production of the fruit is decreasing from year to year. This condition has been identified in four locations: Gowa, Jeneponto, TanaToraja and Sinjai. Production is possibly decreasing due to: (i) Lack of control of pests and diseases, (ii) competition with other commodities of higher economic value to the farmer, and (iii) instability of fresh-passion fruit price at the farm gate. The main issues facing the processing industry in Makassar are: (i) high cost of the passion fruit as it is grown in the highlands on small farms with low productivity and high transport costs to the factory, (ii) for the squash juice business the problem is that the seeds and skin are thrown away at no return to the industry. (iii) the companies have no HACCP or international QA accreditation and this will limit export business. (iv) there are no alternative outlets for passion fruit growers other then sell to collectors who mainly sell to the processors. Based on this supply and demand constraint, there are two key issues for passionfruit development in South Sulawesi. They are good partnership between fanners and processors to reduce business risks and the improvement of grower knowledge. It is recommended that we develop mutual partnership between farmers, processors, and the government. To achieve mutual partnership, we recommend strengthening Jinks with key industry players and improve knowledge of famers.