JAKARTA – Vegetable Energy Development Credit – Revitalization (VEDC – R) programme which was in the first place to accelarate the people’s plantation through the replanting programme is considered to burden the farmers themselves.

Chairman of SerikatPetaniKelapaSawit (SPKS) Nasional, MansuetosDartomentioned, it happens for the implementation of VEDC – R is given to the company, not to the farmers cooperations.

“The subsidy from the state expenditure through the VEDC – R is basically not got by the farmers, but the credits burden the farmers,” Darto mentioned, Wednesday, (28/1)

But he admitted, the credit programme which in the Regulation of Secretary of Agriculture No.33/Permentan/OT.140/7/2006  about the Plantation Development Through Replanting Programme and  the Regulation of Secretary of Treasury No. 117/PMK.06/2006 about the VEDC – R should be kept running.

He continued, the credit programme should be running so the farmers could get the funding system, but in the new formula; not with the partnership scheme, which benefits the company in the end.

“Don’t make one institutio/ company n only to run it for it will fully control the credit programme,” he explained. (T3)