Bali raises clove output

Bali raises clove output

DENPASAR (Antara): Bali, Maluku and North Sulawesi will continue to grow cloves because their produce have met international quality standards.

"Bali's cloves have a specific aroma and are thus suitable for cigarettes," Bali Governor Ida Bagus Oka said Tuesday before thousands of clove growers in Tista village, some 120 kilometers northwest of here.

He said the president has issued a decree that cloves will continue to be grown in the three provinces while those in other provinces will be replaced with other crops.

This, he said, shows that cloves from Bali have good prospects.

Bali, which has 29,000 hectares of clove plantations, has an annual production of 6,000 tons, he said, adding that in view of the presidential decree, Bali could become a clove development center in the future.