KARAWANG - The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Puan Maharani, asked the Modern Rice Milling Plant (MRMP) unit built by Bulog in Karawang, West Java to continue to absorb the produce of farmers around this area.
This MRMP was indeed built by Perum Bulog as a guarantor of availability, affordability and stability in food prices are modern rice milling facilities.
Puan was present at MRMP Karawang, Wednesday, September 21 with a number of members of the DPR, Chairman of Commission IV DPR Sudin, Chairman of Commission V DPR Lasarus, Deputy Chairman of Commission VIII DPR Diah Pitaloka, Member of Commission IV DPR Riezky Aprilia, and Member of Commission VI DPR dr. H. Mufti Aimah Nurul Anam. The DPR delegation was received by the President Director of Perum Bulog, Budi Waseso and his staff.
Accompanied by Budi Waseso, Puan saw the process of processing modern rice at MRMP. Starting from the harvest process, drying to the grain process into rice and packing. MRMP sells premium rice from various packages, including for the size of 5 kg.
Puan guarantees her support for Bulog in helping domestic farmers through MRMP. He hopes that there will be an increase in the absorption of agricultural production in the distribution of national rice.
"This MPMP must also be able to absorb local crops so that farmers can also benefit from the use of modern technology by Bulog," said Puan in a written statement.
Puan said food security can be realized by utilizing technological advances. For example, the MRMP development carried out by Bulog is currently in a number of areas.
"The DPR will continue to provide support for programs that are welfare for the people," said the former Coordinating Minister for Human Development and Culture.
Meanwhile, Budi Waseso said that the MRMP infrastructure development aims to help farmers and simplify the flow of the rice processing process which is centered in the harvest processing facility.
The rice processing system in modern technology-based MRMP consists of a dryer and a rice milling unit (RMU) as a grain conversion machine into rice equipped with color sorting technology (color sorter).
"One MRMP Bulog unit such as the one in Karawang is equipped with a drying engine with a capacity of 120 tons/day, RMU with a capacity of 6 tons/hour and 3 units of SILO with a capacity of 2,000 tons," explained Budi Waseso.
The investment progress of the MRMP project in Karawang is ready to operate in October 2022. This project will be used for processing infrastructure activities for the manufacturing of the economy in Perum Bulog.
With the strengthening of infrastructure through MRMP, it is hoped that Bulog will become a Food SOE that can carry out the government's assignment properly in carrying out production, procurement, and storing rice. In addition, for the distribution of basic food set by the government.
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