InfoSAWIT, PALANGKA RAYA – Vice Governor of Central Kalimantan Province, H. Edy Protowo officially inaugurated the technical guidance to escalate smallholders’ plantation data team on Monday, 2 September 2024. It was conducted by Plantation Agency Central Kalimantan Province at Swiss-Bellhotel Danum Palangka Raya.
In his speech, H. Edy Protowo did welcome the activity and said that it should positively deliver contribution for sustainable palm oil development. He also emphasized it would be significant to plantations as the sub sector of agriculture as the strategic one to develop nationally. The main goal should be about to increase the people’s welfare, contribute to the revenue, and deliver employment for many.
Edy Protowo also said it would need accurate data about smallholders’ plantations. He thought, even though palm oil plantations are developing in the province in the past three decades, the data of the government would be still estimation only.
“Improving data and information about smallholders’ plantation would be the very strategic short term – policy,” he said, as InfoSAWIT quoted from the official page of Central Kalimantan Province, Tuesday (3/9/2024).
The province is trying to develop smallholders’ palm oil plantation database completely with spatial data. This would be very important to support the future policies by hoping that the program would deliver information representatively both in table and spatial (map).
In the event, he also emphasized it would be important to get accurate data by taking advantages on technology as the main support. It is hoped to confirm that every smallholder’s data in the province would get data well.
Head of Plantation and Agriculture Agency Central Kalimantan Province, in his written speech that was read by the Head of Business Development, Empowerment, Institution, Potential Plantation Development, M. Rusan said that the main goal of the event would be about to increase the knowledge and skills to get smallholders’ plantation data and maps. It involved 85 participants, including the speakers from Geospatial and Information Agency, and General Directorate of Plantation Ministry of Agriculture in online session.
It started on 2 and would end on 5 September 2024. It was attended by some representatives from 14 regencies/cities in the province and some smallholders’ plantation data teams from many regions. (T2)
