InfoSAWIT, CENTRAL KALIMANTAN - District of Katingan, non-government organization, and smallholders that join Kelompok Tani Tenera are in cooperation to get people’s palm oil plantation data to establish cultivation documents for the people who work as smallholders.
Kelompok Tani Tenera where the members mostly live in Sub district of Katingan Hilir, District of Katingan, Central Kalimantan Provine got the supports from Agriculture and Food Security Agency by getting cultivation documents for hundreds of the member. Having it, the group has been officially registered as smallholders in District of Katingan.
Chairman of Kelompok Tani Tenera, Sugiyarno said the group tries to support the regional policies, such as, developing palm oil plantations in Indonesian Sustainable Palm Oil (ISPO) and Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) schemes.
The members of Kelompok Tani Tenera have been implementing the sustainability of palm oil plantations. In 2018 the group got RSPO certificate. “Though one year -training and development were not easy for the smallholders,” Sugiyarno recently said to InfoSAWIT.
He continued, the success of the group to get RSPO certificate is the proof that the smallholders in Tenera implement best and sustainable practices. “Our next generations would inherit environmental and sustainable palm oil plantations in the future,” he said.
For information, 35 members of Kelompok Tani Tenera got RSPO certificate that laid about 223,94 hectares, 15 female smallholders or 45,71 percent are involved in the group.
The other success is that Kelompok Tani Tenera also cultivates watermelon in their palm oil plantations. It is normal that the group gets support and credit incentive from RSPO and it develops until now.
The group also takes other (farmers/smallholders) around to join and implement sustainable ad best practices, such as, by having cooperation with District of Katingan and non-government organization.
The good cooperation successfully got smallholders’ plantation data that laid about 1.500 hectares. “Of the numbers, 450 hectares derived from the members of Kelompok Tani Tenera and got cultivation documents," Sugiyarno explained.
The support of Head of Agriculture and Food Security Agency, Mozard D Staing, according to Sugiyarno, was very useful for the people. That is why he continued the supports should always be developed to empower palm oil plantations.
As InfoSAWIT quoted from the official website of Agricultura and Food Security Agency District of Katingan, the agency has goals to escalate agricultural sectors to the regional economy and have been implemented, such as, escalating palm oil plantation production and smallholders’ institutional capability. (T1)
