Tens Of Hectares Of Rice Plants In Mukomuko Bengkulu Harvest Failed

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JAKARTA - The Agriculture Service of Mukomuko Regency, Bengkulu, said that around 61.71 hectares of farming communities in Suka Moving Village were badly damaged due to flooding or crop failure.

"In an area of about 61.71 hectares of rice crops that failed to harvest specifically in Suka Move Village, there may still be in other areas," said Acting Head of the Mukomuko Regency Agriculture Service, Apriansyah in a statement quoted by Antara, Sunday, December 19.

Apriansyah said this was related to data on damage to rice crops due to flooding in Suka Moving Village, Lubuk Pinang District from the Agricultural Extension Center (BPP) in this region.

Until now, his party is still recording rice plants belonging to farmer groups scattered in a number of areas of this area which were severely affected and then which can still be harvested because they were submerged for less than a day and night.

"We are still collecting data on whether the damaged rice plants can still be helped or not, if the damaged ones cannot be helped anymore," he said.

Meanwhile, the Acting Head of the Regional Disaster Management Agency (BPBD) Mukomuko Ramdani said his office was still recording the damaged paddy fields due to flooding in this area.

"We have not received detailed data on rice plants that were damaged due to flooding," he said.

Ramdani said that the party had conveyed to PPL Lubuk Pinang to collect data on the area of rice plants belonging to the local farming community which were badly damaged by the flood.

The rice plants affected by flooding in this area are spread over a number of areas in this area, such as in Suka Moving Village, residential unit (SP) VII, Rawa Mulya Village, Lubuk Pinang District.

Regarding the assistance for farmers who failed to harvest, he said his party would propose to the regent what kind of policy the regional head would have regarding this problem.