PALMOILMAGAZINE, BOGOR – In order to support President Prabowo’s food self-sufficiency program, PTPN Holding encourages the availability of upland rice fields to be carried out by all national oil palm plantation companies. According to him, the existence of upland rice fields can support the availability of rice for national food self-sufficiency.
The President Director of PTPTN Holding, Dr. Mohammad Abdul Ghani, said that the availability of paddy fields for upland rice does not only come from the Smallholders Replanting Program (SRP) alone. Rather, it can be extended to national oil palm plantation companies that also carry out replanting of their oil palm plants. This effort needs to be made to ensure the availability of land for upland rice paddies.
According to him, meeting the needs of upland rice fields from the existence of national oil palm plantations owned by the people is not sufficient. Because, almost all national oil palm plantation companies also carry out replanting of their oil palm plants. In addition, to fulfill the business ecosystem, funding can be supported from the People’s Business Credit (KUR) financing scheme of national banks. Furthermore, the provision of fertilizers can be encouraged from the availability of national fertilizers. Until the absorption of the purchase of rice crops to rice can be purchased directly by the Logistics Agency (Bulog).
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“The existence of an upland rice business ecosystem is needed, to ensure the existence of the rice supply chain,” said the President Director of PTPN Holding.
The man who is usually called Pak Ghani, also explained the efforts of PTPN Holding’s involvement in helping the food self-sufficiency needs of President Prabowo’s administration from various corporate actions that he leads. According to him, the existence of PTPN Holding as a State-Owned Enterprise (BUMN) always supports all government programs.
“Together, we must ensure the availability of Gogo rice fields, in order to meet the national rice needs of the Indonesian people,” Ghani emphasized.
The support for food self-sufficiency from PTPN Holding was expressed by Ghani at the National Seminar themed Potential Intercropping of Gogo Rice in People’s Oil Palm Replanting Land to Support Rice Self-Sufficiency which took place at Aston Sentul Hotel today (19/11) and attended by Palmoilmagazine.com. (P1)
