Jambi, CNBC Indonesia – President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) today released the export of areca nuts to Pakistan. There are a total of seven containers of these products.
“By saying bismillahirohmanirohim, today I declare that I have dispatched seven containers of areca nut commodities,” Jokowi said on the Presidential Secretariat’s Youtube video, Thursday (7/4/2022).
Jokowi said that the total land planted with areca nut trees throughout Indonesia reached 152,000 hectares, of which around 22,000 hectares were in Jambi province.
“This is an export commodity that is in high demand in Thailand, Iran, India, China, and Pakistan and it is expected to become an export commodity in large quantities,” he said.
