Fortune with cattle Geckos

With the lure will have a big advantage, a young man named Paradise (21) in the past year has been in the business of buying and selling animals reportedly able to cure HIV / AIDS.

"I've been in business 1 gecko. At first I just know a guy named Matt Nur, then our discussions how much can earn money. Then I heard geckos expensive, it's gone since I was looking for my geckos and sale," said Firdaus as Kompas.com found at his home in South Cipete Region, Jakarta, Friday (25 / 9).

To maintain the gecko, geckos, Firdaus never admitted having difficulties. The reason is, keep geckos, he says, is not difficult. In addition, the cost of eating is also not expensive. "Livestock geckos really easy. One week we just love him to eat crickets for Rp 5000 as many as two times. This means that one week gecko eating costs Rp 10,000," he said.

The number of geckos owned Paradise currently eight tails. Of the eight geckos had, maximum weight is 2 ounces, while the lightest 1 oz. Although business has geckos 1 year, Eden had never claimed to sell geckos with a fantastic price. The highest price ever obtained only Rp 2 million. This is because the geckos which had only a maximum weight of 2 ounces.

"It's hard for a large gecko. Gecko large number of areas, if in Jakarta rare. At least there was little," he said. Prices vary geckos. Meanwhile, the selling price of geckos in the market, according to this man flunky, depending on the weight gecko itself. The larger or heavy geckos, the more expensive price.

"If geckos 1-ounce size in the market down (not the price of the exporter) USD 100,000, if the gecko 1.5 ounces Rp 200,000, 2-ounce size geckos Rp 500,000 to Rp 2 million. Gecko 2.5-ounce price of USD 5 million and Rp 30 million, "he explained.

According to him, geckos prices started to move higher if a weight above 3 ounces. Price geckos with their own weight of 3 ounces, according to him, has a price of USD 30 million to USD 100 million-an, while the gecko with a heavy 3.5 to 4 ounces of regular priced by USD 100 are also up to USD 800 million. "The price varies for each different boss prices," he said.

Animals sensitive

Furthermore, Firdaus said, gecko is a type of animal that was sensitive enough. Reptiles are in big lizard groups, tribes Gekkonidae, are easily stressed.

"If taken to move from one place to another will appear. Once my friend brought back from Padang to Jakarta for sale. From Padang weighs 7 ounces. Er fit to Jakarta to be weighed down 2 ounces. It fits into people who asked understand, it's -because of stress. Even worse, my friend bring (gecko) from Tanah Abang (Central Jakarta) to the Sunday Market. Er fitted to his destination dead gecko. Finally failed sale, "he said.

According to Paradise, geckos are animals who had always known to be a drug. Meat geckos, he said, believed many people are itching drugs. So also with the blood and bile geckos.

"It is said that geckos bile crystals have become what could be a drug aja. That's usually when tokeknya already weighs 4 ounces. Then, geckos also said the drug could be HIV / AIDS, but I do not know my ass. Some say his blood, meat, tongue, "he said.

Business parcel Idul Fitri

Toward the Eid holiday, the next it was all a blessing for the pengerajin parcel, as what we know from routine every holiday celebrations conducted, perhaps I can only remember that these businesses may also intensified his start today due to holiday just less than fifteen again, certainly many orders and additional income, for details and his ideas pascell you probably know that your creation is a decisive

Gold fields of tuna Abon

Starting from the penchant to eat fish in the family, Nurul Indah Khasanah (36) sparked a creative idea to open a business in the field of abon snacks. Abon is also not a fabric made of beef as long as it commonly known, but from processed tuna.

Business capital of USD 20 million earlier this year dilakoni Beautiful since 2007. Although still whole corn, but that given the development of the business trade name, Abon Khansa Food Tuna has menggurita. Within a month, Indah now markets about 600 pounds of tuna abon worth approximately USD 72 million.

"I was not expecting (the business) would be this big," said Indah as found in the home and place of business in Kayen, Condongcatur Village, District Depok, Sleman, DI Yogyakarta, Friday (14 / 8).

Beautiful family of the husband who comes from Palembang, South Sumatra, which "menjerumuskannya" in this business. Of them, Beautiful studying the processing of foods made from fish, including the traditional foods of Palembang, "sambal environment" or in Java known as abon.

From there, the business instinct Beautiful walk. He thought to sell the sambal neighborhood family favorite menu in the form of packaging. "At first I offered to relatives, neighbors, and friends. It's all good to say, "he said.

Beautiful decided to seriously pursue this tuna abon business and began marketing it as designing the packaging and take care of business licensing to local government of Sleman, Yogyakarta. However, success is not obtained easily.

Initially, Indah must wrestle with the rejection of traditional markets because price is highly valued products to the market of Yogyakarta, namely Rp 12,000-Rp 20,000 per 100 grams. "In addition, products of fish-based foods are also less familiar to the people of Yogyakarta," he said.

Beautiful and desperate time trying to market to supermarkets that have a consumer dinilainya upper middle class and have been quite familiar with the food products made from fish. "After six months of struggle, I can finally received the product market," said the mother of two children.

Currently, products are marketed Khansa Abon Tuna in 35 supermarkets in DIY. Beautiful also use an online marketing strategies via the internet site he made.

The result, abon tuna products are also reaching out DIY success through agents Khansa Food 23. Cities that have been supplied, such as Jakarta, Lampung, Bali, Malang, Padang, Kalimantan, even to Singapore.

From initially done manually, thanks to development efforts, the Beautiful now has four production machines abon tuna with production capacity ranges from 30-60 kg per day Working four workers.

Spices

Types of products made is also now developing into nuggets, meatballs, and brains, all of which are still based tuna. All product, Beautiful words, do not use MSG (monosodium glutamate) or food seasoning made from chemicals.

Indah said, he was using as a key sense abon is a blend of various spices diolahnya archipelago. "I can not mention anything because rempahnya spice trade secrets," said the woman who graduates this architecture.

Actually, various kinds of fish can be processed into abon, but Beautiful choosing meat tuna because of the thick and easy to obtain. Tuna also have a high nutrient content because it contains Omega 3 and Omega 6 are efficacious to reduce the risk of heart attacks and improving intelligence.

"If the fish fillet is too expensive, cork prickly fish, marlin fish hard to come by," he said. Processed tuna is not arbitrary because it must weigh a minimum of 50 kg. If the weight is less than that, the fiber would be easily destroyed when processed into abon.

Currently, the Beautiful is still a dream to expand the marketing network all over Indonesia and abroad. With its products, he also hopes to join the movement succeed the program is encouraged to eat fish government.