Manado, For the first time North Sulawesi Entrepreneurs exported the pepper to Germany, its three types of commodity exporting pepper to Germany due to start for demand from that country.
“Pepper (Lada) area of origin we are exported to Germany, there are three types namely white pepper, pepper gray and mixing white and black,” said Head of Industry and Trade of the Province of North Sulawesi (Sulawesi), Jenny Karouw in Manado, on Monday (27/4 ).
Jenny said, pepper export activities to Germany is the first carried out by the exporter North Sulawesi origin.
“This is an export commodity pepper spice was first performed as meet the demand of the country,” he explained.
He said pepper are exported to Germany as much as 3.6 tons with foreign exchange contribution to the country amounted to 45 360 US dollars (US).
Head of Foreign Trade, the Department of Industry and Trade Flammable T Hasudungan Siregar said that the type of white pepper were exported to Germany as much as 500 kilograms with a value of 6,300 dollars. Pepper gray as much as 600 kilograms with a value of 7,560 dollars and a black and white pepper 2.5 tons with a value of 31,500 dollars.
“Indonesia is indeed one white pepper producer in the world, but in only a small part of North Sulawesi,” he said.