Spices from the Maluku

Maluku known as the Thousand Island area and has a socio-cultural diversity and abundant natural wealth. The Dutch called it 'the three golden from the east' of Ternate, Banda and Ambon. Before the arrival of the Dutch, Portuguese writer and physician, Tome Pirez wrote the book 'Summa Oriental' who have engraved on Ternate, Ambon and Banda as 'the spices island '

The main commodities Maluku archipelago in terms of spices are cloves and nutmeg. Both commodities are now a symbol of the province of Maluku. Maluku Province is located in eastern Indonesia with the capital Ambon. fertile soil make the province of Maluku has abundant natural resources. not only well-known spice since antiquity, the sea was also already a commodity exports to several countries such as Japan and Thaialand.

After Splitting Provinis embarrassment, it gives birth to the northern province of Maluku. After the birth of North Maluku province is expected to natural resource management more leverage so as to increase the production of spices in north Maluku. until recently head of production at the new North Maluku reach 5,000 tons / year. nutmeg plantation area of ​​1,000 ha is one of the efforts of local governments to increase the production of nutmeg. with programs that support the development of production of spices and marine comodity  in the next few years Maluku will get rich with the spices and the sea.


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