PALMOILMAGAZINE, MAMUJU – To facilitate the trading of harvested crops and promote the growth of smallholder businesses, the Plantation Agency of West Sulawesi has encouraged individuals to obtain cultivation documents.
Andi Kamalia, Secretary of the West Sulawesi Plantation Agency, emphasized the importance of these cultivation documents for smallholders. Such documentation would streamline the process of trading their agricultural produce and serve as legal evidence of their plantation’s quality improvement efforts.
“The cultivation document would be one capital to do business for smallholders when they trade their harvest or develop their business,” Andi Kamalia said in Mamuju, as Palmoilmagazine.com quoted from Antara on Tuesday, April 30, 2024.
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The agency actively promoted the significance of these documents in palm oil plantation villages, including Salupangkang and Kabubu in Mamuju Tengah Regency. Stressing that cultivation documents provide essential information about plantation location, seed quality, and harvest, the agency highlighted their role in enhancing plantation quality and management.
In addition to facilitating transactions, cultivation documents form the basis for government plantation policies. “The government requires cultivation documents to formulate policies affecting smallholders’ plantations,” Andi Kamalia explained
In the context of Indonesian Sustainable Palm Oil System (ISPO), publishing cultivation documents would help the government escalate palm oil competition around the globe. It would also deliver practical profits for smallholders and support a sustainable environment.
Andi Kamalia hoped that the increasing understanding and support from the agency, the smallholders in the province would have cultivation documents on their plantations. This would protect not only sustainable environment but also provide easier access to some help programs that the government would provide. (T2)
