InfoSAWIT, BENGKALIS – Regency of Bengkalis through Plantation Agency Regency of Bengkalis and Palm Oil Plantation Fund Management Agency (PFMA) did memorandum of understanding (MoU) to support palm oil plantation infrastructures in the area.

Regent of Bengkalis who is also as Head of Plantation Agency, Mohammad Azmir, suggested the people particularly the smallholders to take on advantages on the helps that the government would provide through PFMA maximally. The support and help would escalate their plantations both from infrastructures and quality.

The budget in the MoU would be used for many, such as, improving infrastructures, escalating the plantation quality, providing fertilizers, seeds, pesticides, production equipment, post – harvest tools, transportation, production units, establishing market infrastructures, and technical verification (to get Indonesian Sustainable Palm Oil/ISPO)

The helps would be distributed through the smallholders’ organizations, such as, groups, cooperation, and others. Azmir also told that the smallholders should propose their needs in the form of infrastructure proposal application which would be available in the official website of Regency of Bengkalis.

“Besides, they could directly contact technical unit of plantation development and seeding or have consultation with Regency of Bengkalis Plantation Agency,” he said, as InfoSAWIT quoted from the official page of Regency of Bengkalis, Sunday (28/4/2024).

Azmir also emphasized, every proposal would be from the smallholders nd would be developed by the agency. The goal is about to escalate plantation productivity and production, escalate the smallholders’ welfare which would be the same with the vision and mission of Regency of Bengkalis; Go forward and be Better. (T2)