PALMOILMAGAZINE, MEDAN – PT. Riset Perkebunan Nusantara (RPN) has resumed training supported by the Palm Oil Plantation Fund Management Agency (PFMA) and the Directorate General of Plantations, Ministry of Agriculture.
This training follows a previous session held in Aceh Province and is now taking place in the Regency of Asahan, North Sumatra Province. Named ‘Palm Oil Plantation Location Map Technique,’ the training involves 28 participants and spans five days, from July 15 to 19, 2024, in Medan.
This training is part of a broader human resource development program for the palm oil plantation sector, conducted by PFMA and the Directorate General of Plantations. The aim is to enhance the planters’ capacity and skills in mapping techniques.
Dr. Winarna from PT RPN emphasized the importance of accurately locating palm oil plantations, which will be a focal point for the Smallholders Replanting Program (SRP).
Dr. Winarna did welcome the initiative of the training as part of the ways to escalate human resource capacity in plantation sectors which for all these years, were integrated with cultivation, post-harvest/processing modules. “The training would deliver not only basic knowledge and practical skills to map, but also would be potential to be the motor of transformation in each participant’s region,” he said, as in the official statement to Palmoilmagazine.com, Wednesday (17/7/2024).
The participant would be trained about related policy and regulation, basic things in area mapping, using tools, for instance, global positioning system, drone, mobile devices, tracking technic, and plants census. They would learn about how to make polygon, plantation map, data management, measurement analysis, and map presentation.
They also did field practices in the pilot plantation of PT RPN at Kebun Aek Pancur, Tanjung Morawa, Regency of Deli Serdang. Sofyan Arifin, Head of Plantation, Agriculture Agency Regency of Asahan appreciated the chance that PFMA delivered. He hoped it would also deliver big advantages for every participant namely to make standar tera desa (cultivation documents) that would need accurate map data. (T1)
