InfoSAWIT, JAKARTA – Palm Oil Plantation Fund Management Agency (PFMA) and Committee of Research and Development PFMA just selected Research and Development of Grand Riset Sawit (GRS) K24 in 2024. From the selection, 52 proposals would get fund supports.
“We would deliver announcement lists of name that would get the 2024 GRS fund,” PFMA noted in a document to InfoSAWIT, Wednesday (24/7/2024).
Those that would get fund supports are from many universities and advance research institutions in Indonesia. Some of them are Akademi Komunitas Perkebunan Yogyakarta (AKPYSTIPER), Badan Riset dan Inovasi Nasional (BRIN), Institut Pertanian Bogor (IPB), Institut Pertanian Stiper (INSTIPER), Institut Teknologi Bandung (ITB), Institut Teknologi Kalimantan, dan Institut Teknologi Sepuluh Nopember (ITS).
Politeknik ATI Makassar, Politeknik Negeri Media Kreatif, Politeknik Teknologi Kimia Industri, PT. Riset Perkebunan Nusantara, Pusat Penelitian Kelapa Sawit (PPKS), serta beberapa universitas terkemuka seperti Universitas Airlangga, Universitas Bengkulu, Universitas Gadjah Mada (UGM), Universitas Indonesia (UI), Universitas Jambi, Universitas Jenderal Soedirman, Universitas Lambung Mangkurat, Universitas Lampung, Universitas Musamus Merauke, Universitas Pancasila, Universitas Sebelas Maret, Universitas Sriwijaya, and Universitas Sumatera Utara.
There were kinds of innovation that the participants proposed, such as, in the upstream to downstream sectors. It showed that PFMA would be committed to support research and technology development to escalate sustainable palm oil industries in Indonesia. (T2)