InfoSAWIT, SIBOLGA – The smallholders in the Regency of Padanglawas (Palas) seriously faced the low plantation productivity and harvest quality. Regent in duty of Palas, Ardan Noor represented by Assistant II, Marza Jennova said it in the socialization about smallholders replanting program (SRP) that Agriculture Agency Regency of Palas conducted at the hall of Hotel Grandika Sibuhuan, Wednesday.

The socialization that also discussed about fund from Palm Oil Plantation Fund Management Agency (PO PFMA), he also said that the regency had smallholders’ palm oil plantations about 37.238 hectares in 2023. But the productivity was low in numbers and this was serious one for the smallholders.

He identified some factors that made it happen, such as, the planting of fake seeds, the bad technology implementation, and limited capital for the smallholders. “That is why it needs to empower them and get infrastructure helps to escalate their plantation and productivity better,” he said, as InfoSAWIT quoted from KBRN RRI, Friday (16/8/2024).

SRP that the fund from PO PFMA would be the big hope for the smallholders in the regency. Marza continued that in 2024, the regency gets the target to replant about 600 hectares but the numbers proposed reached 804.565 hectares.

SRP would be running in some sub districts in Palas, such as, Barumun Tengah, Sosa Julu, Lubuk Barumun, Barumun, Aek Nabara Barumun, and Sosa Timur. It is hoped to deliver solutions for what the smallholders are facing and would escalate their welfare. (T2)