Central Java is prospective economic investment because of its plantation, industrial, fishery, and agricultural sectors. The chief commodities of which are corn (1,836,233.00 tons), rubber (665.00 tons), coffee (14,427.00 tons), fishing fish (236,235.00 tons), tea (19,954.76 tons), coconut (290,552.31 tons), sugar cane (2,288,304.00 tons), cacao (2,028.00 tons), coconut coir industry (300,000.00 kilos), fish canning industry (51,546.60 tons), and brown sugar industry (9 163,421.00 tons/year).
Corn is produced from almost cities in Central Java, except Magelang and Pekalongan. The commodity development of rubber, is concentrated at sub district of Wanareja and Dayeuh Luhur of Regency of Cilacap. Regency of Banyumas, Regency of Banjarnegara, and Regency of Kendal .
Coffee is derived from small scale plantations in Cilacap, Banyumas, Purbalingga, Banjarnegara, Kebumen, Purworejo, Wonosobo, Magelang, Boyolali, Klaten, Wonogiri, Karanganyar, Kudus, Semarang, Temanggung, Tegal, Kendal, Batang, Pekalongan, Pemalang, Brebes, Semarang and Salatiga.Brebes, Cilacap, Tegal, Kebumen, Pemalang Pekalongan, Batang, Jepara, Pati, and Rembang are centers of fishing fish.
Fishery is top rank of labour statistic of Demak, both fishing fish and dike. Fishery commodities marketing includes various fresh and processed fishes. Most of them comes from small scale home industry that uses simple processing technique. Since there is product quality issue, several large scale fish canning industries are built. Thus processed fish price grows higher from day to day, and fishermans' fish catch are dealt out in stabil rate especially in fish season.
There are several tea production centers; Wonosobo, Karanganyar, Tegal, Batang, Temanggung, Kendal, Pekalongan, Pemalang, Tegal, Brebes, Banyumas, Purbalingga, Banjarnegara, Magelang, and Boyolali. Most of Central Java's cities produces coconut. Brebes, Tegal, Pemalang, Pekalongan, Kudus, Pati, Sragen, Karanganyar, and Klaten are sugar cane producer centers. Pemalang, Jepara, Batang, and Cilacap are centers production of cacao, from small holder estates, to big scale private plantations.
At the second place, there are paddy (8,123,829.00 tons), feldspar (141,735.00 tons), and hotel (916.00 hotel). Textile industry is another promising investment. There are many of companies run in that sector, for example PT. Sritex, PT. Tyfountex, PT. Apac Inti Corpora, PT. Mutu Gading Tekstil, and many more. Another business partner s investment preferred commodity are pine sap, batik, metal, salt,cow, wood, water hyacinth, woven fabric, and building material.Limestone, aetheric oil, and oil castore are possible ventures issues of Central Java.
Mineral exploitation and processing are found at Regency of Rembang. Limestone includes approximately 30% of overall land, 93% light, and composes up to 93% CaCO3. Limestone products are GCC, Quicklime, Hydrated lyme and Precipited Calcium Carbonate (PCC). National market rate of quicklime and hydrated lyme reaches 3,1 million tons/year, nation product capacity 1,3 million tons, and market opportunity 1,7 million tons. Therefore, there is a necessity of value added limestone industry development.
Brown sugar industry development projects are located at Kecamatan Pamotan. The scopes of the project are sugarcane area expansion, production facility, and brown sugar factory construction. The purposes of the project are to optimize the dry land, increase sugar production, increase labour number, increase farmers' income. Technical aspects of the project are expansion of 5000 ha sugarcane fields and 4000 tons/season increase brown sugar production. Aetheric oil is export commodity of Batang. Almost all of the products are sold in out of the country. Oil comes from extracted patchouli leaf and clove. Perfumery, cosmetics, etc, use the oil ingredient.
