East Java Governor Khofifah Invites Millennials To Become Modern Farmers

JEMBER - East Java Governor Khofifah Indar Parawansa invites millennials to farm in a modern way because the agricultural sector is one sector that is not affected by the implementation of community activity restrictions (PPKM).

"Many modern agricultural (alsintan) tools and machines such as planting rice are done mechanically and sowing seeds using 'drones', thus enabling millennials to enter the agricultural sector," said Khofifah during a working visit at the Self-help Rural Agricultural Training Center (P4S) in Tanggul District, Jember Regency, quoted by Antara, Friday, November 5.

Based on data from the East Java BPS, he continued, noting that the agricultural and fishery exchange rates continued to grow positively and did not experience a contraction due to the COVID-19 pandemic and PPKM policies.

"The East Java BPS recorded that East Java's economic growth quarter to quarter reached 2.26 percent, while the national one was 1.55 percent, so East Java's economic growth was above the national average, even the highest in Java," he said.

For this reason, he continued, his party invites millennials to become modern farmers because the agricultural sector actually grows positively and increases during the pandemic, so it does not contract like other sectors.

"I invite millennials to enter the agricultural sector, especially in horticulture because it's actually really cool," said the former Minister of Social Affairs.

Khofifah said that the export market potential is also quite good because farmers are always introduced to digital transformation, the process of digitizing the system from the agricultural process to post-harvest.

"Any variant that can be done in the horticultural sector, we have the ability to increase the various variants, all that's left is land certification, seed certification. That's a sign that we are ready to export," he said.