Jakarta –
Indonesia through PT Charoen Pokphand Indonesia Tbk (CPI) officially exports the first poultry products to Indonesia Singapore. Products exported are frozen chicken carcasses.
The release of the first export of chicken was attended by the Minister of Agriculture, Syahrul Yasin Limpo. He said the first chicken export to Singapore indicated that Indonesia was increasingly trusted by the world, especially in terms of poultry readiness.
“Today, we export our poultry together with Charoen Pokphand to Singapore, Japan and Timor Leste. Singapore is special because today is the country we are importing our poultry there for the first time,” said Syahrul at Charoen Pokphand Headquarters, North Jakarta, Wednesday. (13/7/2022).
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Charoen Pokphand has successfully signed a cooperation agreement with a Singaporean importer of 1,000,000 kilograms (kg) or 1,000 tons which will be shipped in stages until the end of 2022 and will continue to increase according to conditions in Singapore.
Today’s special for the first delivery to Singapore carried out as much as 50,000 kg or 50 tons. In addition, delivery is also carried out repeat order processed poultry products to Japan as much as 12,000 kg and to Timor Leste in the form of chicken carcasses as much as 12,000 kg.
“We hope that what has been done by PT CPI can be an opening way for Indonesian poultry products and processed poultry products to penetrate the world market so that Indonesia can be part of today’s world solution by becoming the world’s food barn, as announced by President Jokowi. ” said the President Commissioner of PT CPI, T Hadi Gunawan.
On June 1, 2022, the Singapore government announced that the country needed a supply of chicken to meet its domestic needs. This brings opportunities for Indonesia, which has a surplus of chicken production.
On June 23, 2022, a cooperation agreement was signed between Indonesia and Singapore. Then on June 30, 2022, Charoen Pokphand has been certified by the Singapore Food Agency (SFA) and is designated as an Indonesian poultry company that can export to Singapore.
Singapore Chicken Crisis
For information, previously Singapore relied on Malaysia as a supplier of a third of the country’s chickens. Every month Malaysia exports 3.6 million live chickens, most of which are shipped to Singapore.
However, Malaysian Prime Minister Ismail Sabri Yaakob once announced the shocking news, namely banning live chicken exports to Singapore from June. Quoted from CNNFriday (3/6), this decision was taken to overcome the shortage of supply at the domestic level which made the price of chicken soar.
The nickname ‘chicken rice crisis’ for the situation is just the latest sign of food shortages being felt around the world. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, supply chain problems related to COVID-19, and extreme weather contributed to scarcity and inflation.
(aid/ara)
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