InfoSAWIT, TANA PASER –Head of Agriculture, Agriculture Agency, District of Paser, Bahriansyah said, tens of smallholders would get help to palm oil replanting program in the district.

“About 200 hectares of 82 smallholders would be in replanting program. They have fulfilled the conditions completely, and we have sent (the documents) to the related ministries,” he said.

Palm oil replanting program in the 200 hectare area, he continued, is the help from Ministry  of Agriculture, Indonesian Republic. Tens of the smallholder getting it are from Kelompok Tani (Poktan) in the Koperasi Unit Desa (KUD) Sawit Jaya in Village of Simpang Pait, Sub district of Long Ikis.

Every smallholder has two hectares of palm oil plantation. In every hectare too, they would get help about Rp 25 million,” he said, as quoted fromkorankaltim.com.

He also mentioned, for the program, the smallholders would be helped, starting from the old tree cutting, fertilization, up to the planting palm oil seeds.

“In the replanting program, the smallholders would be helped, starting from the old tree cutting, up to the planting new seeds so that they have productive trees,” he mentioned.

Until now, there have been 17 thousand hectares of palm oil plantations that need replanting program in the district. The trees are old and not productive anymore. (T3)