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RP3.5 TRILLION NEEDED FOR OIL PALM REJUVENATION
Medan, N Sumatra, June 20 (ANTARA) - The government needs to provide Rp3.5 trillion in funds for the rejuvenation of about one million of the country's 2.7 million hectares of oil palm plantations, an oil palm farmer said.
"About one million hectares of oil palm plantations are already 20 to 30 years old so that their productivity has dropped to about 5 to 10 tons of fresh fruit bunches (TBS) per hectare," Anizar Simanjuntak, general chairman of the Indonesian Oil palm Farmers Association (Apkasindo) said here on Saturday.
He said that with the decline in the productivity of the oil palm plantations, farmers could not maximally get profit from their plantations.
The Apkasindo chairman said that the amount of funds needed to rejuvenate the plantations was about Rp3.5 trillion with the assumption that each hectare would need Rp35 million.
He said that the government was expected to help the farmers because their contribution to the national crude palm oil exports (CPO) was big.
Simanjuntak said that the government could take the funds from the CPO export taxes and fees.
"Apkasindo urged the government to realize the fund assistance for the rejuvenation of the oil palm plantations owing to the fact that so far the government's revitalization program is still running slowly," he said.
Simanjuntak said he had reported to the North Sumatra Governor Syamsul Arifin on the need to rejuvenate the oil palm plantations.
The governor had issued a recommendation to the central government that it should return the CPO export tax and fees to the North Sumatra's oil palm farmers, he said.
Indonesian Palm Oil Producers Association (Gapki) chairman Joefly J Bachroeny predicted recently that Indonesia's crude palm oil (CPO) production will increase 5-10 percent as harvest time in the country would begin soon.
"CPO production in the January-April 2009 period reached 5 million tons. We hope the figure will increase 5-10 percent in the upcoming months as the grand harvest will happen soon," he said.
He said the country's CPO production in 2009 was projected to reach 20 million tons, of which 15.5 million to 16.5 million tons including biodiesel fuel would be exported.
In 2008, Indonesia produced 14.29 million tons of CPO, 33 percent of which was exported to India.***2***
"About one million hectares of oil palm plantations are already 20 to 30 years old so that their productivity has dropped to about 5 to 10 tons of fresh fruit bunches (TBS) per hectare," Anizar Simanjuntak, general chairman of the Indonesian Oil palm Farmers Association (Apkasindo) said here on Saturday.
He said that with the decline in the productivity of the oil palm plantations, farmers could not maximally get profit from their plantations.
The Apkasindo chairman said that the amount of funds needed to rejuvenate the plantations was about Rp3.5 trillion with the assumption that each hectare would need Rp35 million.
He said that the government was expected to help the farmers because their contribution to the national crude palm oil exports (CPO) was big.
Simanjuntak said that the government could take the funds from the CPO export taxes and fees.
"Apkasindo urged the government to realize the fund assistance for the rejuvenation of the oil palm plantations owing to the fact that so far the government's revitalization program is still running slowly," he said.
Simanjuntak said he had reported to the North Sumatra Governor Syamsul Arifin on the need to rejuvenate the oil palm plantations.
The governor had issued a recommendation to the central government that it should return the CPO export tax and fees to the North Sumatra's oil palm farmers, he said.
Indonesian Palm Oil Producers Association (Gapki) chairman Joefly J Bachroeny predicted recently that Indonesia's crude palm oil (CPO) production will increase 5-10 percent as harvest time in the country would begin soon.
"CPO production in the January-April 2009 period reached 5 million tons. We hope the figure will increase 5-10 percent in the upcoming months as the grand harvest will happen soon," he said.
He said the country's CPO production in 2009 was projected to reach 20 million tons, of which 15.5 million to 16.5 million tons including biodiesel fuel would be exported.
In 2008, Indonesia produced 14.29 million tons of CPO, 33 percent of which was exported to India.***2***
