Orchid Beautiful of Indonesia

More Orchid species
Agribusiness 09-11-2009
* yuni Naibaho
Orchid, who does not know him? Variation variety of flowers and pretty stunning figures. Its existence as an ornamental plant in Indonesia long enough. That's because orchids have known since 200 years ago and since last 50 years began to be cultivated widely. Indonesia is one country that has a large enough orchid species. There are about six thousand species of total species in the world that revolves 26,000. Unfortunately, in terms of production and business, this country (Indonesia) is still inferior to other Asian countries that have a lot of foreign exchange brought from orchid. In Indonesia, there are many orchid plants in West Java, Central Java, Sumatra, Irian Jaya and Bali. However, there is almost about 80% more orchid farmers in Indonesia are still using imported seed for develops. This is due to the lack of government attention in the development of tissue culture to get a new orchid species with attractive color than the imports have. In fact, the development of orchid plants is a great business opportunity, because the market price never fell like other ornamental plants. As farmers plant orchids in Jalan Haji Adam Malik Medan Yusra. To MedanBisnis, Yusra said, should, in these circumstances the government supports the development by preparing orchid seeds orchid native to Indonesia to be developed. "Orchid from the original seed imported from Indonesia, but has been developed or are crossed to produce a more interesting orchids again, so that we are invincible pamornya orchids," he said.