InfoSAWIT, LUWU TIMUR – To escalate palm oil governance as the significant source to develop economy in Regency of Luwu Timur, Regent of Luwu Timur, H. Budiman, Vice Regent of Luwu Timur, Mochammad Akbar Andi Leluasa; and Head of Food Security and Agriculture Agency, Amrullah inaugurated coordination meeting in Village of Kasintuwu, District of Mangkutana, Wednesday (7/2/2024).

In his speech, H. Budiman told the 2022 plantation statistic data showed the larger palm oil plantations that laid about on from 9.271,38 hectares with the planters about 4.570 families to be 9.806,35 hectares and the planters about 4.740 families in December 2023.

"The government participate to develop palm oil plantations in national scale in the form of fund allocation from Palm Oil Plantation Fund Management Agency,” he said, as InfoSAWIT quoted from the official page of Regency of Luwu Timur (11/2/2024).

He also told that it needs to develop upstream sector, encourage palm oil industrial investment. But he acknowledged there have been challenges in fresh fruit bunch distribution in the regency.

To improve the governance, Budiman emphasized to get improvement and reinforcement. The signing of infrastructure help inscription to develop palm oil plantation ways for the group Caryata Jaya in Village of Kasintuwu and group Laimbo Permai in Village of Margolimbo would be the concrete thing to realize the idea.

“As one palm oil center in South Sulawesi Province, it is time for us to manage, improve our palm oil plantation to get better and reinforced,” Budiman said. (T2)