Improving Indonesian Vegetable Supply Chains

摘要

An Australia-Indonesia collaborative project used a case-study approach to introduce fanners, packing-house staff and consumers (via retailers) to the concepts of food safety and meeting customers' expectations. Activities undertaken to achieve this have included: 1. selection of supply chains and personnel in five locations to participate in case studies, after discussions with senior Ministry of Agriculture (MOA) staff in Jakarta and the provinces 2. a training of trainers (TOT) workshop for 10 MOA staff at the Centre for Standardisation and Accreditation, Jakarta, on food safety for packing houses, including packing-house hazard-analysis and critical control point (HACCP), development of a packing-house HACCP manual, and accreditation preparation 3. TOT on integrated pest management (IPM) and farmer field school (FFS) methodology for selected MOA staff and experienced farmers at five locations 4. FFS for farmers in each supply chain (over 400 farmers have received on-farm training) 5. packing-house food-safety awareness for the community at each supply chain's location 6. packing-house food-safety training and HACCP methodology for managers, staff and farmers supplying packing houses at five locations 7. training in product handling and storage for retail fresh-produce buyers, managers and senior store staff in one supply chain. It is too early to evaluate the impact of the project, but change has occurred at farmer, packing-house and retail sectors of the case-study supply chains.