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JAKARTA: The tobacco farmers expressed its readiness to switch to plant coffee, in anticipation of the planting ban on these commodities in Indonesia.

Vice Minister of Agriculture Krisnamurthi reveals that tobacco farmers, especially in Temanggung has expressed its readiness to switch to plant coffee as a substitute for tobacco plants.

"There are also other alternatives such as planting grass and livestock fodder. They have done their own evaluation, even we [the government] offered what can be helped," he said in Jakarta today.

Besides, he added, in Central Java is currently being conducted trials to pick the extract nicotine from tobacco. Thus, he says, can be used as a shisha consumption in the Middle East, and is used for pharmaceutical needs.

However, Bayu stating the efforts made by tobacco farmers in Waterford will not necessarily be implemented by tobacco farmers elsewhere. This, he said, depending on soil texture and climate in the surrounding area.

On that occasion, Bayu added that tobacco exports in the January to March is very high. "But now is not the tobacco that is exported but it was in the form of cigarettes, especially in China and Africa," he said.

He said the first European and American markets in the form of tobacco, but then also transferred in the form of cigarettes. (Ln) By: diene Lestari (Bisnis.com)

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