InfoSAWIT, WEST PASAMAN – Regency of West Pasaman, West Sumatera Province realized smallholders replanting program (SRP) that laid on 2.099 hectares since 2018 to 2023. The program would be about to escalate plantation productivity and smallholders’ welfare in the regency.
“In 2024, we target to get more 750 hectares that Ministry of Agriculture targeted and the fund from Palm Oil Plantation Fund Management Agency (PFMA),” Executor of Head of Plantation and Livestock Agency Regency of West Pasaman, Afrizal said in Simpang Empat, as InfoSAWIT quoted from Antara.
He also said that SRP in the regency has delivered advantages for the smallholders. It helps to escalate plantation productivity and improve the plant equity and also escalate their welfare.
According to the Regulation of Minister of Finance Number 84 / 2017 about Smallholders Replanting Program Fund Allocation. It is about to escalate the plantation productivity, confirm to optimally take advantages. It was also socialized to the smallholders in the regency.
The terms and conditions to propose SRP are the trees should be more than 25 years old, the production per hectare in a seven - year old plantation is less than 10 tons per year, planted fake seeds and the width should minimally be 50 hectares in 10 kilometer – radius.
The proposal should be through the application of SRP that involved smallholders (proposal account), regency (verification proposal), province (verification proposal) and the central.
The program is supported by having documents about business rights on land which was published by National Land Agency/Agrarian and Spatial from the regency and documents about the areas should be out of forest that was published by BPKH Region 1, Medan, North Sumatera Province.
Afrizal said that West Pasaman lays on about 189.508 hectares. Of the numbers, , 62.574 hectares are big companies’ palm oil plantations, and 126.934 hectares are the smallholders’ ones. With the potential SRP, only 2 percent got the program.
“If we compared to the potential smallholders’ plantations, SRP just reached 2 percent only,” he said. (T2)
