PALMOILMAGAZINE, JAKARTA – Smallholders in the Village of Bukit Sari, Sub-district of Maro Sebo Ilir, District of Batanghari, affiliated with the Koperasi Perkumpulan Petani Sawit Mandiri Jaya Bersama (PPS-MJB), aspire to establish their own palm oil mill.
Meeting all the specified terms and conditions outlined in Decision of the General Director Number 63/2023, they are prepared to initiate the construction of the palm oil mill with the aim of enhancing plantation productivity and improving overall welfare.
Muhamat Yasir, the Chairman of PPS-MJB, stated that the cooperative boasts 1,453 member families. Leveraging their collective potential, they recognize the opportunity to build the mill and anticipate funding support from the Palm Oil Plantation Fund Management Agency.
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“The socialization was done by meeting with the head of village and people, and we qualified the regulation terms and conditions,” Yasir said in an event that Palmoilmagazine.com attended in Jambi by the late of December 2023.
The preparation covered data (of every member), including ID, certificate of family, freehold title, and the picture by drone. Everything has qualified the terms and conditions of the Decision of General Director Numbers 144, 273, and 62. The area to construct the mill would be laying on about 16 hectares, with palm oil plantation supports from the people that laid on about 4.000 hectares.
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The will to construct a palm oil mill is the distance to another mill that spent five hours. Fresh fruit bunch production is projected to reach 90 thousand to 120 thousand tons and would be 200 thousand tons.
“We plan the mill to have a 20-ton fresh fruit bunch per hour capacity, according to the needs,” Yasir said.
To guarantee that the mill will be successfully constructed, the cooperation has gathered 30 percent of the total investment. This showed their will and active involvement to realize their same dream: to escalate the economy and welfare through the palm oil sector. (T2)
