Pakpak Bharat, North Sumatra , 27 / 3 (Xinhua) - Bharat Pakpak Regency, North Sumatra, beginning in 2011 will further promote the program to plant one million trees gambier to spur economic acceleration of the people in the area.
"In terms of geographical and soil structure, Pakpak District Bharat potential for the development of gambier plant," said the Head of Government Public Relations Regency (Regency) Pakpak Bharat, Kastro Manik in District Salak, Sunday.
From the marketing side, he continued, predicted market demand for gambier will also increase with the needs of diverse industries that rely on raw materials gambier, among them the paint industry, pharmaceuticals, leather, food products and ingredients chew betel mixture.
To respond to these market opportunities, says the Kastro, the Bharat Pemkab Pakpak with relevant agencies will continue to encourage farmers in the area to make it more viable longer grow gambier.
Mentioned, gambier plant in Indonesia today so far only suitable to be developed in two districts, namely Pakpak Bharat and Fiftieth District Municipality, West Sumatra.
"Through a million tree planting program gambier, Bharat Pakpak later expected to become the largest production centers in Indonesia gambier," he said.
Gambier is a kind of dried sap from the leaves and twigs extracts squeeze gambier plant.
India imports about 60 percent of Indonesia gambier and use it as an ingredient mix to chew betel.
Gambir cultivated on land altitude 200-800 meters above sea level, ie ranging from topography rather flat up to the hillside.
Plants are usually grown as a plantation crop in the yard or garden on the edge of the forest.
Gambier plant cultivation patterns are usually semi-intensive and rarely given a fertilizer, but it needs to be done cleaning and trimming on a regular basis for a relatively large sap productivity.
Besides gambier, he said, farmers in the district that blooms from Dairi Regency in 2004 is today also actively developing export-oriented crops, such as Arabica coffee, white frankincense and patchouli.
Pakpak Bharat is a district that has the least population of all districts in the province of North Sumatra ( North Sumatra ) with an average population density of 34 inhabitants per square kilo meters.
