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april 3: start of second field day in Bangkalan - took the road south and turned up toward konang

KWANYAR [[in margin]]

stopped first in town of kwanyar on south coast to see krupuk udang industry - site of a possible 2nd year PRP project 
-Kwanyar a fishing village and the kewedanaan capital 
-are 30 HH with +/- 3 people working in each - both men and women work
women do the actual mixing, making and cooking while men do drying and generally "membantu" in various ways
tapioca purchased from Surabaya other ingredients are fresh shrimp, eggs, retsin (MSG_, condensed sweetened milk, salt
are 3 quality grades made in the village; best grade uses tapioca and shrimp in proportion 1:1
only top grade uses milk. Some people buy their tapioca from local stores instead of directly from Surabaya
-two earlier feederpoint projects from TII have distributed 300,000 Rp worth of tapioca each time if buy tapioca from store is 29,000 Rp per kwintal; 28,000 if buy direct
six months ago price was 13,000 Rp for top grade, 10,000 for second grade during shrimp season 1 HH will use 1 Kw a week peak shrimp season Jan - Mar; Apr - June still have but catch declining
from July - Dec no shrimp at Kwangar
can sometimes continue production by getting shrimp from [[kec. seresi in kab. Sampang?]] (also south coast, further east) - sometimes, however, get to seresi and they don't have any shrimp either.
Shrimp to make krupuk must be fresh, cant use dry price is 250 Rp a kilo in shrimp season, 350 a kilo in