InfoSAWIT, BENGKALIS – Head of Plantation Agency Regency of Bengkalis, Mohammad Azmir did officially inaugurate socialization about cultivation documents, Indonesian Sustainable Palm Oil (ISPO) and scholarship in UPT Pembibitan dan Pengembangkan Perkebunan Sub district of Bantan, Regency of Bengkalis.
Mohammad Azmir told that it is important to get cultivation documents and ISPO certificate so that the smallholders’ plantations would be put into data. The quality standards are also important namely about seed quality and harvests to support sustainable palm oil cultivation.
That is why he delivered related information about scholarship for planters/smallholders’ children. The participants in the socialization should know it because it would be the chance for their children to get higher official education freely. The goal is about to escalate human resources’ quality.
As InfoSAWIT quoted from the official page of Regency of Bengkalis, Wednesday (21/2/2024), the socialization was attended by Head of Plantation Business and Counseling Riau Province Plantation Agency, Tengku Nuramizah Ibrahim. He told that to support sustainable plantation governance, particularly, palm oil, cultivation documents would be the base to know the width and traceability about independent smallholders’ plantations.
The target to publish cultivation document is for the planters that cultivate less than 25 hectares plantations. Before it is published, there should be data, verification, and field validation on their areas that proposed (cultivation documents). The terms and conditions for the smallholders that proposed it, should be to plantation agency by completing data and documents, such as, ID of applicant, plantation data, forest region status, and area documents about ownership.
While ISPO is the system of palm oil plantation business which is economic, social, and environmental worthy. The goals are about to escalate cultivation, develop palm oil plantations in ISPO principles and criteria, escalate palm oil plantation competitiveness, and accelerate green-house gas reduction.
One other speaker (in the socialization), Merina told about scholarship for smallholders/planters’ children. It is available through the official website of General Directorate of Plantation Ministry of Agriculture. Every term and condition can be seen and got through www.beasiswasdmsawit.id
The socialization was joined by agricultural counselors in Sub district of Bantan and many smallholders. It is hoped the information would be shared to smallholders’ groups in the regency. (T2)
