Indonesia optimizes land and plant corn in coconut plantations

TABLOIDSINARTANI.COM, Manado---The Ministry of Agriculture is boosting the rate of increase in corn production by utilizing coconut plantation land. This intercropping cultivation is carried out in one of the coconut centers in Manado. The Directorate General of Plantations, Ministry of Agriculture, launched an integrated planting of these two food and garden commodities in Bengkol Village, Mapanget District, Manado City, Saturday (18/11). Corn planting is an effort to optimize coconut land to increase national corn production. "Minister of Agriculture Andi Amran Sulaiman is optimistic that optimizing the acceleration of the planting period can secure and increase food production, as well as be a path to self-sufficiency," said the Director of Seasonal and Annual Crops, M Rizal Ismail, who represented the Director General of Plantations, Andi Nur Alam Syah, who planted corn regularly. integration into coconut plantations. Rizal explained that currently national food stocks, ...