GEMURUH – Seeing crab cultivation business opportunities that are in demand by many people, making Erwin began to be interested in the business of enlargement or crab cultivation.
Erwin started his business one year ago, where he considered the prospects of this business quite promising. Plus there are not many who run this business, but the demand is quite high. This is what makes him more excited to run his business.
Erwin's crab cultivation continues to grow, if previously he was only assisted by family, now he has ten men to jointly cultivate crabs, This effort is quite large, some time ago he could even release almost 1000 crab seeds into the pool that has been prepared.
"I chose this crab enlargement business because I see a promising market share at a fairly good price, and seafood consumers, especially crabs, are also many, the harvest period is also not too long for approximately three months can have results," Erwin said some time ago.
This fostered partner of PT Timah Tbk said that he obtained seeds from outside the region because they were not able to do their own breeding. However, at this time, his party continues to learn, assisted by guidance from the technical service unit Fisheries Service to be able to do crab breeding.
Admittedly, there are several obstacles he faced in running this business. instead, it is a matter of capital. So, he had delayed being able to add ponds and seeds. "The obstacles in the initial capital are mediocre, so it is a bit choked up his business. Thank God yesterday tried to submit a partnership loan proposal from PT Timah and approved so that I could buy seedlings and also the addition of another pond," he said.
In addition, according to him, feed is also a problem, because the feed purchased from fishermen around can be disturbed if the weather is not friendly. "The feed we buy from fishermen around, if the weather is not friendly fishermen do not net the supply of feed so somewhat disturbed," he said.
For him, after becoming a foster partner of PT Timah Tbk his business continues to grow because with the injection of capital, he can add seeds, make ponds again, and the addition of other tools.
"To become a fostered partner of PT Timah, which I feel the process is not difficult, only we have to be patient and importantly we have a business that will be developed so that the capital we get, is really right to develop the business," he said.
In the future, he hopes that pt Timah Tbk's partnership program can continue to roll so that more people can take advantage of this program. This program is an effort by the company to bathe MSMEs.
PT Timah Tbk continues to be committed to assisting MSMEs in developing their business, the assistance disbursed is not only capital assistance, but also the construction and marketing of products through the exhibition and other activities. (**)
