Efficiency In The Use Of Fertilizer, Ministry Of Agriculture Encourages Farmers Throughout Indonesia To Use Biosaka Implementation

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The Directorate General of Food Crops, Ministry of Agriculture (Kementan) encourages farmers throughout Indonesia to use biosaka in food crop cultivation as an effort to streamline the use of fertilizers and chemical pesticides.

The Director of Food Crops at the Director General of Food Crops, Ministry of Agriculture, Yudi Sastro in Bantul Regency, Yogyakarta Special Region, Saturday, March 11, said that Bantul, one of the areas that has implemented biosaka, is quite massive with an area of approximately 400 hectares.

"And we need to massive this, so that later it can be applied throughout Indonesia, the goal is that with this biosaka application we can increase plant productivity, streamline the use of fertilizers and chemical pesticides. So to answer issues at this time," he said, quoted by Antara.

According to him, the application of biosaka or ingredients from plant solutions or vegetables to protect plants from pests and disease attacks has been applied throughout Indonesia, but only in the Bantul area which has applied quite a large area.

"So it is natural for us to echo starting from Bantul, actually biosaka was first applied in Blitar, East Java, but now that the total area that has reported is quite large, it is precisely in Bantul," he said.

According to him, the rice plants in the Bantul area with the application of biosaka are planned to be harvested in the near future with the Ministry of Agriculture, as a form of government appreciation to the farmers who have implemented the agricultural innovation.

"Hopefully this will have an impact in other areas, if we have implemented it in the last two years, we will introduce it from Blitar, so this is actually an innovation from farmers, and this is good, and this answers national issues so that the Director General of Food Crops is very supportive of this to be applied throughout Indonesia," he said.

He also said, from several areas that have implemented biosaka in rice parks, there are records and reports that they can reduce the use of chemical fertilizers, then reduce chemical pesticides and maintain harvest productivity.

"We know the issue is expensive fertilizers, rare fertilizers, expensive chemical pesticides, then we are saturated with chemical use without being balanced with other or organic or natural compound applications. So that farmers can apply this at no cost, or expensive materials," he said.