InfoSAWIT, JAKARTA – General Director of Plantation Ministry of Agriculture, Andi Nur Alam Syah said smallholders replanting program (SRP) would be significant for it would support the future palm oil availability and sustainability in Indonesia.

“It is time to substitute unproductive trees by new ones (superior and certified seeds). Of course, it needs infrastructure supports which are qualified, and fast to increase production, productivity, additional values, quality of palm oil plantations,” he said, as in the official statement InfoSAWIT, Monday (30/1/2023).

He also said, by having SRP and infrastructure implementation, the government should also escalate palm oil human resource quality by delivering education, training, counseling, and development to get more maximal outcome.

“We also need to do research to make palm oil sustainable by maintaining the good quality from the upstream to downstream sectors,” he said.

For information, based on the Decision of Minister of Agriculture Number 833 / 2019, palm oil plantation canopy in national scale laid about 16,38 million hectares (ha) with the composition, 53% belonged to private plantations; 42% belonged to people’s plantations; and the rests 5% belonged to Enterprises. Of the total numbers, the people’s palm oil plantations laid about 6,94 million ha. The potential ones to get SRP laid about 2,8 million ha and the composition, plasma and independent smallholders laid about 2,29 million ha; plasma PIRBUN 0,14 million ha, and plasma PIR Trans/PIR KKPA 0,37 million ha.

The target of SRP in every year should lay about 180.000 ha. 2023 SRP target within 1 system (100.000 ha) would be running in 21 provinces and 115 districts while within 2 system, it would be running with some corporates. (T2)