Sad, Already A Month One Palm Oil Factory In Mukomuko Is Not Operating

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JAKARTA - The Agriculture Service of Mukomuko Regency, Bengkulu Province said that until now PT Sentosa Sejahtera Sejati, oil palm oil factories in this area have stopped operating to process palm fresh fruit bunches because there has been no sale of CPO outside this area. "PT Sentosa Sejahtera Sejati, which has absolutely no sales and this factory has been closed for one month," said Head of the Mukomuko Regency Agriculture Service Apriansyah in a statement at Mukomuko, quoted from Antara, Monday, July 11. He said this was in response to the decline in the purchase price of palm oil fresh fruit bunches by nine out of 10 palm oil factories spread across 15 sub-districts to below Rp1,000 per kilogram. He explained that PT Sentosa Sejahtera Sejati had stopped operating to process fresh fruit bunches of palm oil, apart from the lack of CPO sales, including the company's full holding tank. So that the management of PT Sentosa Sejahtera Sejati decided not to buy palm oil TBS belonging to farmers in this area. He hopes that after this PT Sentosa Sejahtera Sejati will return to work to process the bunch of fresh palm oil belonging to farmers in this area. Meanwhile, nine other palm oil factories are still operating normally by receiving fresh palm oil bunches sold by farming communities in this area. These nine factories do not limit the number of purchases of palm oil from farmers, although CPO sales from this area are limited. Menurut dia, dengan kondisi seperti sekarang ini kemungkinan pabrik memilih untuk tetap membeli TBS coconut palm milik petani setempat dengan harga lebih murah dibandingkan sebelumnya. Even the purchase price of FFB palm oil by all palm oil factories spread across a number of areas in this area is below Rp. 1,000 per kg. Meanwhile, the lowest price for fresh palm oil bunches at PT Sapta Sentosa Jaya Abadi was Rp. 750 per kg and the highest price in PT Gajah Sakti Sawit was Rp. 900 per kg.