JAKARTA - PT Agrinas Pangan Nusantara (Persero) will work on 11,000 hectares (ha) of rice fields in the near future. Where, the target is that the land will supply as much as 55,000 unhulled rice this year.
President Director of Agrinas Pangan Nusantara Joao Angelo De Sousa Mota admitted that 11,000 ha of rice fields to be cultivated are located in the food estate area of Baturaja, Ogan Komering Ulu Regency, South Sumatra.
Furthermore, Joao said the project would be executed within the next one or two months.
Batu Raja ada 11,000 hektare, itu adalah quick win kita. Jadi itu yang pertama kali kita akan siapkan dengan computing-pertimbangan yang matang untuk mengeksikusasinya, ujarnya usai acara peluncuran Agrinas Pangan Nusantara di Pos Bloc Jakarta, Rabu, 14 Mei.
Based on calculations, Joao continued, 11,000 ha of the rice fields were able to produce 55,000 tons of unhulled rice this year.
"If 11,000 times five is approximately 55,000 tons of unhulled rice. That is a quick win that we will do while extensifying and intensifying what we have planned," he said.
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Jo as he is familiarly called admitted that he had collaborated with Awila Anlagenbau GmbH, which is a provider of engineering plant services from Germany. In addition, there is also a collaboration with Suncue Company, a agricultural dryer production company from Taiwan.
Furthermore, Jo also admitted that he had signed a collaboration with Gadjah Mada University (UGM) to prepare superior and resilient rice seeds.
"To build sustainability rather than our activities, we also collaborate with UGM in preparing superior, resilient and tested seeds and we are open by making R&D so that all parties can be involved in making observations," he said.
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