SURABAYA Indonesia-The exchange rate of the farmers in East Java has not been ideal, so it needs to be improved. The reason, the exchange rate of the farmer or the NTP is a number that shows the comparison between the prices of agricultural commodities produced by farmers on the price of farm household consumption.
This statement was made a member of Commission E of parliament Ahmad Jabir in Surabaya in East Java, Wednesday (18/04/2012).Ideally,the NTP should be more than 120 percent so that farmers could save 20 percent of his income. Therefore,if just 100 percent, then the farmers' income and expenditure balance only.That is,the income of farmers up to finance the primary needs of life.
According to the Java DPRD members of the Prosperous Justice Party (PKS),the NTP began in 2008 in East Java in the range of 99 percent to 101 percent. If viewed from the NTP Java compared to the national NTP, is also not ideal because from 2008 to 2011, East Java NTP NTP is always below the national average.
In 2011, the national NTP reached 104.56 percent at 101.64 percent, while East Java. Thus, Jabir said, as the province's largest agrobis southeast asia se, it should ideally Java NTP NTP is above the national average.
The solution, among other things related to the data riill dominant variable affecting the low NTP, and not merely based on assumptions.