PALMOILMAGAZINE, SIBOLGA – Smallholders in the Padanglawas (Palas) Regency are facing significant challenges due to low plantation productivity and poor harvest quality. This concern was highlighted by Ardan Noor, the acting Regent of Palas, through Assistant II, Marza Jennova, during a socialization event on the Smallholders Replanting Program (SRP) organized by the Palas Regency Agriculture Agency. The event took place at the Grandika Sibuhuan Hotel on Wednesday.
During the event, which also covered funding opportunities from the Palm Oil Plantation Fund Management Agency (PO PFMA), it was noted that the regency had approximately 37,238 hectares of smallholder palm oil plantations in 2023. However, the low productivity remains a significant issue for the smallholders.
He identified some factors that made it happen, such as, the planting of fake seeds, the bad technology implementation, and limited capital for the smallholders. “That is why it needs to empower them and get infrastructure helps to escalate their plantation and productivity better,” he said, as Palmoilmagazine.com quoted from KBRN RRI, Friday (16/8/2024).
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SRP that the fund from PO PFMA would be the big hope for the smallholders in the regency. Marza continued that in 2024, the regency gets the target to replant about 600 hectares but the numbers proposed reached 804.565 hectares.
SRP would be running in some sub districts in Palas, such as, Barumun Tengah, Sosa Julu, Lubuk Barumun, Barumun, Aek Nabara Barumun, and Sosa Timur. It is hoped to deliver solutions for what the smallholders are facing and would escalate their welfare. (P2)
