"As a pilot project, we will replant palm oil on 30 thousand hectares of land," Minister of Agrarian and Spatial Planning, Sofjan Djalil, said here on Monday night (July 17).
He stated that the replanting project will be in an area where the cooperative sector is running strongly, considering that the cooperative is expected to become the basis of the project.
"If the first phase of the project is successful, then there will be more projects the next year," Sofjan asserted.
Meanwhile, Coordinating Minister for Economic Affairs, Darmin Nasution, explained that the oil palm replanting should be done in order to avoid increasingly complicated issues.
According to him, the palm oil rejuvenation program will be run in cooperation with the Ministry of Agriculture and the Plantation Fund Management Board for Palm Oil.
In addition to palm oil, the government will also run a rubber rejuvenation program in 2018 on 15 thousand hectares of land.(*)
Editor: Heru Purwanto
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