Balinese Fruits
Bali is a tropical land and therefore you will find so many tropical plantation and fruits, one of the well-known fruit existing in Bali is called “Salak”.Salak is tropical fruit which generally found all over Indonesia .Available in many different areas and named in accordance with it place in origin, for example, Salak Pondoh, Salak Madura, Salak Rondet and Salak Bali.
Salaks belong to horticultural variety of fruit with its prospective business opportunity for cultivation. People love Salak Bali in particular including domestic people as well as foreigners implying that Salak has a great market opportunity.
Salak grow very well in sandy fertile farming area with high rainfall rate. It is still all right the rain fall is low as long as there is a shallow potential of ground water.
In Bali people have been grow Salak for more than a hundred years. Same part of Bali still have the old trees. The characterized by horizontal trunks, the stumps are lifted on the ground while their hairy roots emerge from the trunk hanging down penetrating the ground so that it looks like a dragon.
In order to obtaining the best quality Salaks, the following traditional methods are common practice of farmer.
- Seedling preparation
Is done by buring seeds under the ground. This method allowing farmers to plant seed in a large quantity
- Area preparation
One year prior to plantation, the area has to be cleared and planted with other trees for shading purposed using Dadap ,Turi, Lamtoro or Gamal trees. Holes are prepared one month in advance prior to planting. The hole are made in certain dimensions and filled in with compost and sandy earth.
- Plantation
Planting is conducted one month after the holes are filled in with compost, the tree to be planted should be 4-6 month old or the ones with 3-4 leaves. Planting is the best conducted at the beginning of the rainy season.
- Maintenance
Salak plantation should be well maintained from the day of planting until all the trees bear fruits including: weeding out, use compost to fertilizers, well manage pest control programs until know, farmers have not identified typical Salak pests.
- Harvest
Natural harvest season is conducted from January to March every year. Salaks harvested at this time are big and sweet. Gadon harvest is performed from August – September every year when Salak trees produce rat her smaller fruit size. Although there are two harvests in a year, Salaks are available through out the year.
- Type of salaks
Salak Gondok : Round fruit, Brown Skin, Yellowish thick flesh, sweet, small kernels
Salak Nenas : Fruit and skin similar like Salak Gondok, Whiter flesh, more sweet with a little bit sour, thick and juicy flesh.
Salak Gula Pasir : Dark brown skin, white flesh, very sweet and Many more.
Balinese people use salak for many think, they processed salaks to another food like; sweets, Taffy, Syrups, Salted fruits and Wine. On the holy day Balinese people making offering to the God the use flower leave and also fruit, one of them is Salak So Balinese people so close with Salak.
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