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Want to be the Real Planters, Here are the Conditions



Want to be the Real Planters, Here are the Conditions

InfoSAWIT, JAKARTA – Author of palm oil plantation, Maruli Pardamean said, planter is the old profession but many do not know planter as a profession yet. It needs to remember that human resources become the factors of production to determine the success in plantation business.

“A great planter would make a company great,” Pardamean said in an online event that InfoSAWIT attended.

That is why it needs to prepare planter candidates in work by delivering description of palm oil plantations. “Of course, a planter should escalate his/her competency,” Maruli said.

He also told, if a planter is as a profession, he has to have special knowledge in a certain field, involve in many intellectual activities, prepare everything in a whole. It means, a planter candidate should not only get trainings.

A planter needs continuous trainings in their jobs or position, should prioritize the people’s interest more than his personal interests, join professional organizations in profession fields. “Obey codes of ethics or standards in working as planter,” Maruli said.

One experienced plantation practitioner, Abdul Hamdan Nasution said, the planters should understand agro psycho sociology namely the juniors. Nasution thought, agro means a planter should understand everything about agronomy, agro-technology, and business aspects which they got in their (formal) study.

Psycho means, a planter’s mentality though each planter has different mentality. Sociology means, a planter has something to do with community.

Nasution continued, a planter should notice his or her performance. “A planter is an executive profession and a professional. He has to be clean, good looking, having clean face, within leathered shoes as well,” he said.

The most important thing is that he has to speak with data. A planter must master data, for instance, hectare statement, the map(s), production statistic, nursery progress, and production cost(s).

“A philosophy of planter is that he has to have mind of business, how to save, what to get in profits. These do not mean that everything is not done. A planter should calculate diligently, he has to have details, good in mind and body, integrity with honest, has to have diligence, kind heart which means, he has to control his emotion, and has to have feet of steel,” Nasution said. (T2)


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