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C SULAWESI PREPARING LAND FOR S KOREAN SEAWEED CULTIVATION PROJECT
Palu, April 20 (ANTARA) - The Central Sulawesi provincial administration is to make one million hectares of land available for South Korean-funded seaweed cultivation projects, a provincial economic development official said.
"The one million hectares of land are to be located along the coastlines of the bays of Tomini and Tolo," Hasan Haris, head of the Central Sulawesi Development Planning Agency (Bapeda), said here on Monday.
South Korean investment in seaweed cultivation in Central Sulawesi was one of the activities agreed on in a Letter of Intent (LoI) signed in Palu last April to establish sister-province relations between Central Sulawesi and South Korea's Jeollanan-do province.
Jeollanan-do Governor Park Joon-yung told the press after signing the LoI, the South Korean companies interested in seaweed cultivation in Central Sulawesi would need one million hectares of land for their operations which would include the processing of seaweed into various finished products.
He said an investment of around Rp3 trillion would be needed to make bio-enenrgy from seaweed.
Park also said the South Korean investors would provide prime seaweed seeds and all the technology needed for the seaweed processing industries.
Hasan Haris said Central Sulawesi Governor HB Paliudju had instructed district heads in coastal areas to speed up the collection of data on the land needed for the mega seaweed cultivation and processing project.
"The coastal regions bordering the bays of Tomini and Tolo are good for the development of sea weed commodities and therefore I think finding one million hectares of land for the project is not very difficult," Hasan Haris said.
He added that a lot of sea weed farmers in the districts of Banggai Kepulauan, Bangai, Morowali, Parigi-Moutong, Tolitoli and Kota Palu had been developing the commodity with good results.
Hasan Haris said that the farmers collected the sea weeds and sold them to traders from Makassar and Surabaya.
Parigi-Moutong district head Longki Djanggola said earlier that he was ready to prepare one million hectares of land around Tomini Bay for the South Korean investors.
"I am ready to prepare one million hectares of land for sea weed cultivation as required by the South Korean investors, so long as the cooperation can increase the income and welfare of our local farmers," Longki Djanggola said.
"The one million hectares of land are to be located along the coastlines of the bays of Tomini and Tolo," Hasan Haris, head of the Central Sulawesi Development Planning Agency (Bapeda), said here on Monday.
South Korean investment in seaweed cultivation in Central Sulawesi was one of the activities agreed on in a Letter of Intent (LoI) signed in Palu last April to establish sister-province relations between Central Sulawesi and South Korea's Jeollanan-do province.
Jeollanan-do Governor Park Joon-yung told the press after signing the LoI, the South Korean companies interested in seaweed cultivation in Central Sulawesi would need one million hectares of land for their operations which would include the processing of seaweed into various finished products.
He said an investment of around Rp3 trillion would be needed to make bio-enenrgy from seaweed.
Park also said the South Korean investors would provide prime seaweed seeds and all the technology needed for the seaweed processing industries.
Hasan Haris said Central Sulawesi Governor HB Paliudju had instructed district heads in coastal areas to speed up the collection of data on the land needed for the mega seaweed cultivation and processing project.
"The coastal regions bordering the bays of Tomini and Tolo are good for the development of sea weed commodities and therefore I think finding one million hectares of land for the project is not very difficult," Hasan Haris said.
He added that a lot of sea weed farmers in the districts of Banggai Kepulauan, Bangai, Morowali, Parigi-Moutong, Tolitoli and Kota Palu had been developing the commodity with good results.
Hasan Haris said that the farmers collected the sea weeds and sold them to traders from Makassar and Surabaya.
Parigi-Moutong district head Longki Djanggola said earlier that he was ready to prepare one million hectares of land around Tomini Bay for the South Korean investors.
"I am ready to prepare one million hectares of land for sea weed cultivation as required by the South Korean investors, so long as the cooperation can increase the income and welfare of our local farmers," Longki Djanggola said.
