InfoSAWIT, JAKARTA – The world population escalates while areas to produce food get limited. Chairman of Gabungan Pelaku dan Pemerhati Sistem Integrasi Sapi-Kelapa Sawit (Gapensiska), Joko Iriantono said having about 16,38 million hectares palm oil plantation, Indonesia has potential to produce food by implementing palm oil plantation – cow integrated program.

“It would be very wise for out food security namely to procure cow meat in national scale,” he said to InfoSAWIT, Wednesday (29/3/2023).

He also mentioned, sistem integrase sapi – kelapa sawit (SISKA) is the real thing to multiply cow population, cow meat production in sustainable and environmental palm oil plantations.

Analysis by General Directorate of Plantation Ministry of Agriculture revealed that at least there are four reasons why palm oil plantations can be the places to breed cows; the first, there are wide palm oil plantations that laid about 16,38 million hectares and have chances to run palm oil – cow integrated program.

The second, woof biomass would be available every year because the plantations would produce biomass that becomes the source of woof, for instance, midrib, leaves, the green below palm oil trees, solid, and palm oil cake.

The third, there are available human resources – the smallholders, to breed, fat the cows, and the fourth, it would reduce cost to buy fertilizers and herbicides in the plantations for about 30%.  (T2)