***"Beef consumption in Indonesia has gone from 1.4 kilograms to 1.8 kilograms per year in just three years. If it keeps going at this rate - and it probably will as they learn more and more about meat - they are going to need more and more cattle," he said.
***Satu bukti pemerintahan SBY-Boed telah meningkatkan standard of living kita.... Indonesia's threat to cut live trade empty January 6, 2012 MOVES by Indonesia to slash its reliance on the live cattle trade from Australia will never see the light of the day. Senior cattle industry figures say the publicity given to the Indonesian announcement to cut live exports from 520,000 head to 280,000 was difficult to understand given Indonesia can never hope to feed its growing population with home-grown beef, the Townsville Bulletin reports. Industry leaders are at a loss to say if the Indonesian announcement was just hopeful thinking on its part or sabre rattling in the wake of perceived insults sent Indonesia's way when the Australian government shut down the live cattle trade after images of livestock being mistreated in Indonesian abattoirs were aired in ABC television. The consensus is Indonesia is almost totally reliant on the Australian product and it couldn't import cattle live on boats from either South or North America because of the huge distances and exorbitant transport costs from those countries. Innisfail cattlemen and AgForce cattle board member Alex Stubbs said the wailing coming from some sections of the media and from some producers after Indonesia's December 15 announcement was perplexing given beef industry leaders knew Indonesia, with 220 million people and a cattle herd of no more than 14 million, was not going to be able to fulfil its wish of becoming self-sufficient in terms of beef. "As a nation we support Indonesia's efforts to become self-sufficient in terms of food production and we have helped them try to achieve this, but with the number of people they have compared to the number of cattle they can run they just can't do it," he said. He said coupled with this was the fact beef consumption in Indonesia was growing. He said this alone placed much more emphasis on Indonesia to maintain its live trade links with Australia. "Beef consumption in Indonesia has gone from 1.4 kilograms to 1.8 kilograms per year in just three years. If it keeps going at this rate - and it probably will as they learn more and more about meat - they are going to need more and more cattle," he said. Ingham cattle industry identity and live exporter Kate Milton said she found it hard to understand the fuss made about the announcement when it was common knowledge Indonesia had neither the land nor the numbers of cattle to feed its expanding population. "I don't know why Indonesia made that announcement. It might have had something to do with the live export ban our government placed on the trade there during the year. I don't see Indonesia saying it has cut back our live exports as a threat it can actually implement. They will need our cattle," she said. "The biggest threat to our live export trade is our own government. It treated Indonesia badly when it shut down the live export trade. No one from the Australian government has ever formally apologised to them for the way it was handled, she said. Mr Stubbs said the Indonesian live trade announcement was a storm in a teacup and Australian producers had bigger fish to fry. He said America's recent free trade agreement with South Korea threatened Australia's toe-hold in that lucrative beef market. "We don't have a free trade agreement with Korea and as a result we pay a 40 per cent tariff on our beef when it arrives there. That money goes straight to Korean producers. The Yanks have muscled their way in while our government does nothing. It should be doing more to help us keep our market there." Read more at the Townsville Bulletin. http://www.weeklytimesnow.com.au/articl ... -news.html [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ Post message: [email protected] Subscribe : [email protected] Unsubscribe : [email protected] List owner : [email protected] Homepage : http://proletar.8m.com/Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/proletar/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/proletar/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
