InfoSAWIT, PENAJAM PASER UTARA – Plantation Agency East Kalimantan Province kept doing the best to reinforce smallholders’ groups to support palm oil plantations that would be 40 hectares in the Village of Sepan, Sub district of Penajam, Regency of Penajam Paser Utara (PPU). This would be about to get the group management better and measured to get every goal.

Head of Plantation Agency East Kalimantan Province, Ence Ahmad Rafiddin said that 32 participants from Kelompok Tani (Poktan) Pilar Jaya joined the training in the hall of Village of Sepan. It would be about to support palm oil plantation expansion and reinforce the groups, develop togetherness, and escalate independency in their cultivation.

“The training would be the start to get palm oil plantation expansion helps as the way to reinforce togetherness and the groups’ management capacity,” Dessy Susanti, the counselor of commodity development, said in the activity, as InfoSAWIT quoted from Antara, Tuesday (30/7/2024).

The training managed sistem kebersamaan ekonomi dan manajemen kemitraan (SKE-MK) for about two days or since on 24 - 25 July 2024. The main focuses were about to escalate palm oil cultivation technic, change the cultivation, and escalate plantation productivity.

It was coordinated by Balai Penyuluhan Pertanian (BPP) Sub district of Penajam, with the speakers - Eko Susanto Fuzi from Plantation Agency Regency of PPU and Ainul Jihad, Petugas Penyuluh Lapangan (PPL) BPP Sub district of Penajam.

"We hope the training would encourage the smallholders to be more active and be more competitive in their products, escalate their life quality, and develop agricultural business sustainably,” Dessy said.

The training itself would be the significant thing to empower the agriculture in the Regency of PPU and it is hoped to realize palm oil cultivation revolution to escalate the production and productivity significantly. (T2)