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Government to distribute seeds for major commodities
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Workers plant oil palm seedlings at a plantation in Kapuas Hulu, West Kalimantan. (Antara/Andre)
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he government will distribute 35 million seeds and seedlings of main commodities such as cacao, coffee and rubber to small-scale growers.
The Agriculture Ministry’s plantation director general, Bambang, said his office had distributed 25 percent of them.
“The seeds/seedlings had been prepared since last year,” Bambang said in Jakarta on Monday as reported by kompas.com.
Bambang was speaking at a press conference for the World Plantation Conference and Exhibition (WPLACE) 2017 at Borobudur hotel in Central Jakarta.
He said the funds for the 35 million seeds/seedlings had been allocated in the 2017 state budget to improve plantations nationwide.
With the distribution of the seeds/seedlings, the growers are expected to be able to increase their production, Bambang said.
Previously, Coordinating Economic Minister Darmin Nasution stressed the importance of the seed distribution to increase productivity and improve the quality of life of growers.
In the 2017 state budget, the government allocated Rp 2.4 trillion (US$178 million) for the program in the 2017 state budget. The allocation will be increased to Rp 5.5 trillion next year. (bbn)
