PALMOILMAGAZINE, LUWU TIMUR – The Regency of Luwu Timur, through the Food Security and Plantation Agency, conducted a socialization event on palm oil profit sharing. The event took place in the hall of the BPP Subdistrict of Burau and was attended by about 151 participants, including village officers, data officers, field counselors, developers, and smallholders.
The event was inaugurated by Amrullah Rasyid, the Head of the Food Security and Plantation Agency of the Regency of Luwu Timur, who represented the Regent of Luwu Timur.
Speaking on behalf of the Regent, Amrullah Rasyid highlighted that the agriculture sector, particularly plantations, significantly contributes to the economic progress of the regency. “It reached 21,49 percent in 2022,” he said, as Palmoilmagazine.com quoted from the official page of Regency of Luwu Timur, Tuesday (9/7/2024).
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He also mentioned, the increasing fund allocation for agriculture sectors reached from 43 billion rupiah to be 82 billion rupiah in 2024. It is hoped to escalate the smallholders’ welfare in the regency.
Head of Plantation and Agriculture Agency, Muhtar said that the goal of the socialization would be about to get accurate data and information to support policy and regulation making in palm oil plantation development in Indonesia. Muhtar targeted there would be about two thousand cultivation documents to be published by eighty data teams that had got the data.
The socialization was also attended by two speakers that represented Central Bureau of Statistic South Sulawesi Province and Agrarian Reformation/ National Land Agency. The smallholders’ plantation data would be conducted in three sub districts, such as, Burau, Mangkutana, and Tomoni. (T2)
