InfoSAWIT, JAKARTA – The climate change would be the serious challenge for plantation sectors namely in the tropical countries, such as, Indonesia. The increasing temperature, changing system of the rain, and extreme weather, such as, flood, and drought would directly deliver impacts for plantation productivity, harvest quality and area sustainability. But Indonesian Planters Society (IPS) knew the chance behind the challenges by encouraging technology implementation and agricultural practices to be more adaptive to increase the plantation productivity when the climate change would happen.
Edwin Syahputra Lubis, SEVT Research, Innovation, and Sustainability PT Perkebunan Nusantara (PTPN) III Persero holding (PT Riset Perkebunan Nusantara) said that palm oil plantations would have the big potential to absorb carbon emission through the carbon sequestration namely in the peat and mineral ones. “In 2023, of the total palm oil plantations that laid on about 16,38 million hectaers, the sequestration process for eight years could absorb carbon up to 1,683 gigaton of CO² (GtCO²)," Lubis said, as the speaker at Bincang-Bincang Sawit with the theme “Solusi Inovatif untuk Keberlanmillionn Perkebunan Sawit Menghadapi Perubahan Iklim dan Peningkatan Produktivitas di Lahan Marginal" that Indonesian Planters Society (IPS) conducted and InfoSAWIT attended, Saturday (5/10/2024) in Jakarta.
He also said that one latest innovation that PTPN III has implemented is the weather monitoring in Internet of Things (IoT) – base, called NUSAKLIM. The application would enable the changing weather monitoring in every day and would deliver the early notification about extreme climate change potential in the next 20 days. “Now the tool has been put in 104 spots and 90 percent in PTPN, in Pusat Penelitian Kelapa Sawit (PPKS), and 10 percent in some private companies,” Lubis said.
The talk-show would be the part of the inauguration of IPS new coordinators in 2024 - 2027, and led by Jamalul after having national scale – meeting on 8 - 11 August 2024. It is hoped the new coordinators of IPS would prioritize innovations and collaboration to face the plantation challenges in the future, namely in the unexpected climate change. (T3)
