InfoSAWIT, REJANG LEBONG – Fishery and Agriculture Agency, Regency of Rejang Lebong, Bengkulu Province mentioned that palm oil profit sharing that the regency got would be used to get plantation data and develop agricultural infrastructures.

Head of Fishery and Agriculture Agency, Regency of Rejang Lebong, Amrul Eby said that the fund from palm oil profit sharing would be about to get palm oil plantation data and the publication of cultivation documents. “Palm oil profit sharing that the agency got would be used to get plantation data and publish cultivation documents, while the other allocation would be about to develop smallholders’ way infrastructure that Public Work Agency Regency of Rejang Lebong would manage,” Amrul Eby said, as InfoSAWIT quoted from Antara, Sunday (25/8/2024).

Cultivation document publication would be one effort of the regency to realize sustainable palm oil plantations. It would be as the official documents to clarify that one plantation where a commodity is cultivated, has been officially regulated by the regency by a mayor or a regent.

In 2024, Regency of Rejang Lebong got palm oil profit sharing for about Rp 5 billion. The numbers were significant because palm oil plantations in the regency were not wide enough. Eby hoped the allocation from the central government would contribute to escalate palm oil plantation productivity in the future.

Central Bureau of Statistic Rejang Lebong revealed that by 2024, palm oil plantations in the regency developed in 15 sub districts and about more than 900 hectares. The smallholders’ plantations were in Sub district of Padang Ulak Tanding, Kota Padang, Sindang Beliti Ilir, Sindang Beliti Ulu, and Binduriang and being developed.

Sub district of Padang Ulak Tanding has the widest ones or about more than 600 hectares, after that, Sub district of Kota Padang, Sindang Beliti Ilir, and Sindang Beliti Ulu where palm oil plantations laid on about 100 hectares. Sub district of Binduriang has about 25 hectares. (T2)