The Indonesian government seeks to build plantation resilience through palm revitalization

The government is conducting efforts to develop the upstream sector of public palm plantations by replacing old, unproductive plants, through the public palm revitalization program. Jakarta (ANTARA) - The Agriculture Ministry has called for public palm revitalization (PSR) on 2.8 million hectares of plantations to ensure national plantation resilience. "We have to ensure that this public palm revitalization (PSR) program can go accordingly, and I am confident that this PSR forum can create a beneficial result for Indonesians," Agriculture Minister Syahrul Yasin Limpo said at the “National Palm Coordination Meeting” here on Monday. The national palm sector's contribution is supported by 16.38 million hectares of plantations, 6.9 million of which belong to the people, he noted. However, public palm plantations are still facing a crisis due to low productivity and unoptimized agro-input. Moreover, the plantations only generate three to four tons per hectare of crude palm oil ...