InfoSAWIT, MAMUJU – Plantation Agency West Sulawesi Province would be committed to escalate the smallholders’ welfare in the province by conducting smallholders replanting program (SRP). It would escalate their plantations’ production and productivity and would contribute to welfare them.
Head of West Sulawesi Plantation Agency, Herdin Ismail said that this would be the way of the government to optimize the smallholders’ plantations in West Sulawesi. To maximize the results from SR, the agency did socialize palm oil plantation physical assessment by involving the team from pendamping kemajuan fisik (PKF) from three palm oil centers, such as, Regency of Mamuju, Mamuju Tengah, and Pasangkayu.
The socialization was running in the Regency of Pasangkayu that presented speakers from General Directorate of Plantation Ministry of Agriculture. It was about the circulars published by the directorate about plantation physical assessment. The other speaker was from Pusat Penelitian Kelapa Sawit (PPKS) Sulawesi and mentioned about the good and right cultivation.
Plantation physical assessment would be the important part in SRP. The goal would be about to evaluate and know the success of palm oil plantations that would be in 36 months. The assessment would cover some aspects, such as, the health of plantations, the growth, the productivity. Everything would be significant to get fund from Palm Oil Plantation Fund Management Agency (POPFMA) in Ministry of Finance.
“One main focus of us would be about to increase the plantation productivity. The minimal standards in fresh fruit bunch production should be 3,5 kilogram per bunch,” Ismail said, as InfoSAWIT quoted from Antara. In the second day of the socialization, the participants did field practices in the Village of Bajawali, Regency of Pasangkayu. The result showed that the fresh fruit bunch would be more than the minimal standards. Some even reached eight kilogram per bunch.
The success would be the positive indication that SRP in the province would qualify not only the numbers but beyond the expectation. Ismail hoped the socialization would reinforce the team’s capability and plantation cultivators to get plantation physical assessment accurately and confirm the success and sustainability of SRP program in the regions (T2)
