InfoSAWIT, ACEH – Chairman of Serikat Petani Kelapa Sawit (SPKS) District of North Aceh, Abu Bakar did meet and socialize infrastructure program with fund supports from Palm Oil Plantation Fund Management Agency (PFMA) to many smallholders in District of North Aceh and East Aceh.

“We would keep moving to get independent smallholders go forward, such as in smallholders replanting program and advantaging infrastructure fund. Our friends are very enthusiastic,” he said to InfoSAWIT, Wednesday, (13/9/2023).

Infrastructure fund, for instance covers in developing plantation path, getting fertilizers. These should welfare the smallholders in Aceh Province because 85 percent of the plantation path are bad. “They are difficult to transport their harvest,” he said.

Abu also told in rainy season, the plantation paths are difficult to pass through and their harvest are too. “That is why we are developing the groups in two districts to get infrastructure fund, including the design to construct plantation path,” he said.

For information, SPKS is developing Kelompok Tani Irda Jaya in Village of Cotgirek, District of North Aceh; Kelompok Tani Aman Damai in Village of Buket Kuta, Sub district of Pedawa and Kelompok Tani Buket Jok in Village of Alue Udep, Sub district of Ranto Perlak, District of East Aceh.

“In Aceh Timur, the paths around the two groups’ plantations are very bad. We proposed to improve the path for about 100 kilometers as the harvest access, including the road that connect plantation path to public way. We are in cooperation with consultant to calculate how much would it spend,” he said. (T2)