InfoSAWIT, BOGOR – To protect the planters (smallholders) and get fair fresh fruit bunch (FFB) price, Ministry of Agriculture through General Directorate of Plantation published regulation of minister of agriculture (RMA) about FFB Purchasing Price Guidelines for Planters’ Production. This is about to avoid unhealthy competition among palm oil plantation companies.

For palm oil plantations keep developing, it needs to adjust and perfect the previous RMA Number 01 / 2018. Minister of Agriculture, Amran Sulaiman emphasized that it needed to get collaboration with many associations and institutions to solve what the planters (smallholders) are facing.

General Directorate of Plantation initiated public hearing about the Draft of RMA Number 01 / 2018. The meeting involved many parties, associations, and related instances in palm oil (sectors).

General Director of Plantation, Andi Nur Alam Syah said that plasma smallholders’ FFB in November 2023 mostly and significantly got more expensive up to 19% in average. It reached Rp Rp 367 per kilogram from the cheapest one in July 2022.

Andi Nur emphasized that sustainable palm oil plantation development brought its own dynamics particularly about the implementation of RMA Number 01 / 2018. Many got the impacts particularly when exports were banned. He claimed to get constructive inputs by focusing on that the smallholders would get normal FFB price.

“In the implementation of the regulation, the partnership is the keyword, bot for plasma and independent (smallholders),” Andi said as InfoSAWIT quoted from the official page of Ministry of Agriculture, Monday (11/12/2023).

He also hoped that the regents and mayors, plantation associations, plasma development, and the smallholders themselves would support and succeed the implementation of FFB purchasing price of smallholders. It is hoped to realize sustainable plantation governance and make palm oil industries in Indonesia go forward. (T2)