InfoSAWIT, BOGOR – Plantation Agency Kutim just recently signed memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Ministry of Agriculture through General Directorate of Plantation and Palm Oil Plantation Fund Management Agency (PFMA) on Saturday (13/5/2023) at Hotel Salak The Heritage.
The MoU was about the supports from Ministry of Agriculture to distribute fund in palm oil infrastructure in Kutim in 2023 which the fund would be from PFMA.
Head of Plantation Agency Kutim, Sumarjana told that the fund support would be used to the operational and development of infrastructures. The numbers would be Rp 300 million from PFMA. The fund would be used to get some activities in Kutim,, such as, area expansion that would cover 100 hectares, escalating agricultural harvests (intensification) for about 100 hectares, improving production paths for about 100 hectares, and Indonesian Sustainable Palm Oil (ISPO) certificate in one package. Sumarjana was with Head of Counseling Plantation Agency Kutim, Adianto.
Sumarjana continued in 2022, District of Kutim through Plantation Agency got infrastructure helps from PFMA. The activities covered intensification that covered 150 hectares, improving production path that covered 100 hectares, and ISPO certificate in one package (1.000 certificates). “If any activity has not been realized yet, it would be continued in 2023,” he said, as InfoSAWITquoted from the official page of Plantation Agency Kutim, Tuesday (16/5/2023).
Meanwhile Chairman of Palm Oil Plantation Infrastructure Secretariat Team General Directorate of Plantation Ministry of Agriculture, Suprihartono said that his side through PFMA would keep encouraging the infrastructures in palm oil plantations based on the mechanism. The supports in MoU is registered with Number 100.3.7.1/168/Disbun-Set/V/2023.
“This would be the important moment to maintain the roles of palm oil to be sustainable. The government has published policy to get palm oil fund based on Chapter 93 Laws Number 39 / 2014 about Plantation,” he said.
One allocation from palm oil fund is for infrastructures in palm oil plantations. The supports from the policy would cover smallholders replanting program, developing human resources, and infrastructure helps. (T2)
