Ganjar Appreciates Purbalingga Millennial Farmers, Takes Advantage Of Bengkok Land As Agrotourism

Presidential Candidate Ganjar Pranowo Karangpucung Village, Kartanegara District, Purbalingga Regency, Monday, October 30 evening (Ist)

PURBALINGGA Will be a presidential candidate (readpres) in 2024 Ganjar Pranowo visited a warped land belonging to Karangpucung Village, Kartanegara District, Purbalingga Regency, Monday, October 30 evening. After attending the Haul Mbah Hisyam Kalijaran event in Purbalingga, Ganjar immediately slid into Karangpucungk Village, the arena was curious about the success story of millennial farmers there. Sure enough, Ganjar's curiosity was cured after seeing something proud. The twisted land in the village has been transformed into a sad story agrotourism that produces agricultural and livestock products. And what makes Ganjar even more proud, the agro-tourism called Artansi Chandra Kahuripan is managed by millennial farmers. "Welcome to Agrotourism Artansi Chandra Kahuripan Pak Ganjar. Here we manage a variety of agricultural and fishery products, starting from melon, vegetables, cow cultivation, sheep, rabbits, catfish, crickets and others," said Tri Bowo Pangestika, activist. Artansi tourism welcomes Ganjar. With Bowo spirit explained that all the agricultural and livestock cultivation was managed by millennial farmers. They also collaborated with other farmers to be trained to become good and profitable farmers. "We have 10 groups and more than 150 members. We utilize a six-hectare village twisted land and are managed for agriculture and livestock cultivation," he said. Even though on limited land, the results of agriculture and livestock cultivation in Agrotourism Artansi are very promising. For the type of melon For example, each harvest is always selling well for buyers. In fact, only two days, the harvest is always sold out. "We have four greenhouses for hydroponic melon cultivation. We manage with simple technology that we call NFT. One greenhouse can produce one ton and usually two days after harvest is always running out. We are so overwhelmed with serving market demand," he said. Boyo said, the success story of developing agrotourism has reached the national level. He succeeded winning the national-level competition and becoming a pilot place. "So we now often have guests from various regions in Indonesia who want to study here. There are from Jakarta, Bandung, Surabaya and others. We teach and we hope that what is here can be developed in other areas," concluded the 31-year-old youth. Hearing this, Ganjar seemed to smile proudly. He also had time to go around to see hydroponic melon farming and chat with hundreds of people The millennial farmer who was there. "This is cool, Mas Bowo is really creative. He has the imagination to take advantage of everything into added value. He used the village's twisted land to make this agro-tourism. And cool, Mas Bowo collaborated with young people to get involved in it," said Ganjar.

Young people are taught fun agriculture. Even technology has been used even though it is still very simple. "This is a model that can be developed throughout Indonesia. An innovation from the village level, with self-discovered technology and producing good economic value. This needs to be followed by an example, and the government must provide facilities because there are many great children who can become driving motors," he concluded.