Central Java Governor Ganjar Pranowo boosted land management and land conservation to increase food productivity.
"Actually, we have always been able to be called a barn. Only now that spatial planning is increasingly competitive with the needs of industry, housing, so fertile land must really be conserved," said Ganjar in Semarang, Central Java, Saturday, January 14.
According to Ganjar, the title of the rice barn has long been attached to Central Java Province and this cannot be separated from rice productivity. Some time ago Ganjar had said that rice productivity in Central Java reached 9.7 tons and rice 5.6 tons to 5.8 tons per hectare.
According to him, this productivity must be increased again so that rice and rice production in Central Java can also meet national needs.
"In addition to conservation of fertile land, the intensification must also be encouraged so that if on average we are 5.6 to 5.8 tons per hectare of rice, then it must increase again so that the food barn can be pushed," said Ganjar, quoted by Antara.
Ganjar's food barn is not only related to rice or rice but other potential food commodities.
Food diversification must be carried out by boosting commodity production such as corn, cassava, sukun, and even porang.
"The food should not be translated into only rice, we have corn, cassava, breadfruit which we can produce a lot. Including porang which sells very well so that food diversification applies," said the PDIP cadre.
To increase food barns with existing diversification, Ganjar continued, it requires good system development and control so that data becomes valid.
According to him, valid data will be used as a reference so that a commotion about rice imports like some time ago does not occur.
"Indeed, this system must be developed, controlled properly and the data becomes valid because otherwise it is like yesterday. Actually, at this time we need to import rice or not, arguing for a long time, the rice has arrived. Then the other farmers shouted, we don't get imported ricegrojogan. Well, how much is our data actually," he said.
Regarding this data, Ganjar explained that in terms of productivity, it can already cover needs in Central Java, there are even remains so that they can be shared or sent to other places such as Jakarta, Central Kalimantan, and so on.
"So why do we need our agricultural data, hopefully the agricultural census can later become the main data to fix everything because there are still many derivative problems. If we want to talk about needs that can be met like that, this data must not be missed, continue to update," he said.
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