Select Contract Farming Instead Of Continue Food Estate, Anies: Government Prepares Regulations

Presidential candidate number one Anies Baswedan in Pangalengan, Bandung Regency, Wednesday 29 November. (doc. Anies Team)

BANDUNG - Presidential candidate number one Anies Baswedan prefers to focus on local farmers aka contract farming rather than continue the food estate program currently run by the government.

Anies sees that there is no need to change land but is serious about providing injections of benefits to local farmers to develop their productivity and income.

"Yes, so what is referred to as contact farming is where they continue to try in their area, and the government is actually intensifying agricultural activities," said Anies in Pangalengan, Bandung Regency, West Java, Wednesday, November 29.

Anies explained the role of partners in providing helping hand to important local farmers. According to him, BUMD, BUMN to private parties who are competent in agricultural areas can be charged with injecting funds to local farmers.

"But the government is preparing regulations," he added.

"So that it is possible for their agricultural products to be directly taken by people who can need it through these business entities," continued Anies.

Anies assessed that contract farming is fairer because focus is given to farmers who have been producing agriculture for decades, not clearing new land managed by the corporation.

"In fact, if the same funds are given to contract farming, those who accept the people who have been working are actually producing," said Anies.

Anies said the state budget for the development sector and increased agricultural productivity is more beneficial if the main focus is on those who have been farming for a long time.

"So that's why we choose to conduct contact farming so that the state budget is not actually made to new places but instead gives to those who have been working for agricultural production where the difference is. That's right," he said.