PALMOILMAGAZINE, JAKARTA The Indonesian government is consistently solidifying its role as the world’s leading producer of plantation commodities, with palm oil being the foremost contributor.
The Minister of Agriculture, Andi Amran Sulaiman, expresses optimism regarding the sustainability of agricultural and plantation production even in the face of extreme climate change.
In order to bolster sustainability efforts, he encourages ministry officials to collaborate with various stakeholders. The objectives include mitigating the impacts of climate change, verifying the availability of plantation resources, and making a tangible contribution to the national effort to expedite carbon emission reduction.
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The General Director of Plantation, Andi Nur Alam Syah, emphasized that it is important to manage palm oil stock carbon. As the mainstay commodity, palm oil has incredible impacts on the environment and economy. It needs to understand and manage climate change impacts to get sustainable policy.
As Palmoilmagazine.com quoted from the official page of the Ministry of Agriculture, it cooperated with the Biocarbon Fund Initiative for Sustainable Forest Landscape (BioCF-ISFL) 2023. The cooperation would be about to escalate the understanding of climate change impacts in plantation sectors, reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and support forest and environmental conservation.
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In the workshop of BIOCF-ISFL in plantation subsector 2023 in Jakarta on Tuesday (19/12), Director of Plantation Protection, Hendratmojo Bagus, said that environment issues are the focus around the globe, including in Indonesia. It is hoped the workshop will deliver a comprehensive description of the positive contribution of palm oil plantations to climate change mitigation.
Bagus hoped that there would be guidelines for policymakers and agricultural sustainable practices. Besides, he said that the formulation of the workshop should be a good input for future programs, and Indonesia would always be developing and innovating to face the more complex environmental issues.
“We hope the formulation from this workshop will be the input to arrange the programs in the next few years, and we will be developing and innovating to answer the more complex environmental issue,” he said. (T2)
