Expert: Rice Cultivation on Oil Palm Land Supports Food Security Farmers can get income from upland rice while waiting for the oil palm to bear fruit after replanting. Red: Fuji Pratiwi

Published 2024년 4월 27일

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Prof. Totok Agung Dwi Haryanto from Jenderal Soedirman University has proposed cultivating rice on oil palm lands as a strategy to enhance food security in Indonesia. With over 15 million hectares of oil palm land available for replanting every year, this approach could provide a significant source of food during the replanting period, which can last 4-5 years. The professor emphasizes the importance of planting upland rice on dry land to prevent impacting young oil palm plants and notes that the remaining fertilizer from rice plants can benefit oil palm plants. This method also offers income for smallholder oil palm growers during the replanting period. The government is already supporting this initiative by developing upland rice plants on plantation land.

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REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, PURWOKERTO -- Agricultural expert from Jenderal Soedirman University (Unsoed) Prof. Totok Agung Dwi Haryanto assesses that the development of rice cultivation on oil palm land can support food security. "Developing food production on oil palm lands is one of the food security strategies in Indonesia," said Prof Totok Agung Dwi Haryanto in Purwokerto, Banyumas Regency, Central Java, Saturday (27/4/2024). In this case, he said, Indonesia has nine food security strategies. Namely intensification, increasing the planting index, use of homestead land, use of dry land, food storage, use of oil palm plantations and food estates. He said that the area of oil palm land in Indonesia is more than 15 million hectares. Every year there are areas that undergo a replanting or replanting phase. "Replanting oil palms takes at least 4-5 years to produce first production. The remaining time to wait for the first harvest makes it possible to plant rice or other crops," said Totok. ...

Source: Republika