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50 Thousand Hectares of Smallholders’ Plantations in Aceh Got Replanting Program



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50 Thousand Hectares of Smallholders’ Plantations in Aceh Got Replanting Program

InfoSAWIT, BANDA ACEH – Plantation and Agriculture Agency Aceh Province delivered announcement that about 50 thousand hectares of smallholders’ palm oil plantations got replanted through smallholders replanting program (SRP). It has been started since 2018 and the goal would be about to increase the plantation productivity for the smallholders in the province.

The Secretary of Aceh Province Plantation and Agriculture Agency, Azanuddin Kurnia said that palm oil plantations in the province laid on about 263 thousand hectares while the companies’ plantations that were cultivated through business rights laid on about 220 thousand hectares. "About 50 thousand hectares of smallholders’ plantations got replanted since 2018," he said, as InfoSAWIT quoted, Tuesday (15/10/2024).

Palm Oil Plantation Fund Management Agency (PO PFMA) funded the program. it also supported to develop the smallholders with the changing authority from the province and regency/city level to the central government in the past few years.

“Not only SRP, PO PFMA got other activities, such as, developing production ways, providing agricultural tool, the proposal to construct (mini) palm oil mill by some groups. But the last one did not get approval yet,” he said.

Besides, the agency suggested the smallholders to register their areas to get cultivation documents if theirs was less than 25 hectares. While those that cultivated/had more than 25 hectares should get business rights. The cultivation documents would be the significant conditions to get Indonesian Sustainable Palm Oil (ISPO) certificate, as the sustainable standards in palm oil industries.

Azanuddin also mentioned, of 263 thousand hectares smallholders’ plantation in the province, only about 10 thousand overlays were registered with cultivation documents. Some of them were in Aceh Tamiang, Nagan Raya, and few others. (T2)


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