InfoSAWIT, BANJARBARU – Head of Plantation and Livestock Agency South Kalimantan Province, Suparmi inaugurated Indonesian Sustainable Palm Oil (ISPO) training for smallholders in the Regency of Tanah Bumbu. It would be about to escalate the smallholders’ capacity and capability to implement good agricultural practices, plant certified seeds, get financial fund in replanting program, and reinforce their institutions.
Suparmi said that the program would be about to accelerate ISPO certification. “By having ISPO certificate, the issue about legal, productivity, and synergy in partnership among institutions would be well solved,” Suparmi said, as InfoSAWIT quoted from official page of South Kalimantan Province, Tuesday (30/7/2024).
This would be part of program/activity of Rencana Aksi Daerah Kelapa Sawit Berkelanjutan (RAD KSB) of South Kalimantan, as it is mandated in the President’s Instruction Number 6 / 2019 and South Kalimantan Governor’s Regulation Number 13 / 2023.
The province is known by the smallholders’ palm oil plantation development. It had independent progressive history between the people and big plantation. “To develop smallholders’ plantations, we would develop the good cultivation approach, for instance, developing palm oil and rubber plantations should be by developing the people’s ones as plasma with PIR (Perkebunan Inti Rakyat) system," Suparmi said.
This were effectively approved to develop theirs fast, delivered positive impacts to poverty alleviation, unemployment, and regional development.
To realize sustainable palm oil development, it would need the support to escalate the smallholders’ capacity and capability. This would accelerate ISPO implementation, solve the issues about the legal, escalate plantation productivity, help develop partnership synergy among institutions, namely between the big private companies and the independent smallholders through plasma or other partnership schemes.
“I thank Palm Oil Plantation Fund Management Agency for palm oil plantation human resource development in this province. It would be very helpful to change the mindset and behavior of the planters to get the same goal, which is, to escalate plantation production and productivity,” Suparmi said.
By the training, it is hoped that the smallholders in the province would be having more skills and be professional when cultivating theirs and would encourage economic development in the region, nation, and be sustainable. (T2)
