NTB’s Pearl Price Slip Off
NTB’s Pearls clearance sale by a pearl cultivation preservation entrepreneur makes the price slipped off drastically. In order to monopolize preservation business in NTB, the price not offered but just letting it go to his Japanese buyer. Nowadays, the price slipped up to IDR 20.000 per gram from IDR 800.000 – 1.000.000
Protest delivered by head of NTB Marine and Fishery Agency, Ali Syahdan to the press at Media Center, Tuesday (May 18th). “Pearl Price damage by one of entrepreneur from other region who also has business here,” he said. Thus makes in one year the government only could achieved sixty billion rupiah for its export income.
In a year, more than 26 pearl cultivation companies in NTB could produce around one ton of pearls. The entrepreneur who damage pearl marketing price has 36 cultivation points. “The consumer should buy it in sack,” said Ali Syahdan who complaint and confessed he was too lazy managed it further. That is why, Asosiasi Budidaya Mutiara Indonesia – Indonesia Pearl Preservation Association – would form an institution which could buy pearl production in order to maintain price stabilization.
Since its first cultivation in NTB that was in 1983, formerly the pearl produced was South Sea Pearl just those usually cultivated in Indonesia. Compared with Pinctada Fucata pearls from Japan, Pinctada Maxima is the combination of Pacific and Indian Ocean, weight more than two gram per item. The first pearl cultivation has 2.5 gram pearl, the second was three gram and the third was five gram.
In NTB had appeared product similar to emerald with green color, bronze and metal. The production not more than 5 to 10 percent. “That was one product resulted from color deviation,” said Ali.
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