I don’t think someone will reject this program because it is very beneficial for farmers, supporting food security and green economy because it is very environmentally friendly,
Padang (Antara)- Commission IV of the Indonesian parliament responsible for the agricultural, marine, fishing, environmental and forestry sectors, assessed the cheap Staple Rice Field Program in West Sumatra, which is considered a great potential to support national food security with minimal costs and benefits of farmers.
Chairman of the House of Representatives Commission IV, Siti Hediati Soharto together with the deputy chairman of the House of Representatives Commission IV, Alex Indra Lukman and a number of members went directly to Jorong Ampang Gadang, Ampek Angkek District, West Sumatie, West Sumatie.
“We have seen this cheap basic rice field program. This is very potentially. Production costs are very low because mail -harvest, rice fields do not need to be hijacked, do not need chemical fertilizers because it is replaced by straw and even maintenance does not need much energy,” he said in Agam on Saturday.
What is even more important, he said, the results of grain production from cheap rice fields are the same as regular rice fields, even in the next few harvest periods the results are more than rice fields that fertilizer use fertilizer.
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Siti Hediati, known known Titisch Suharto, encouraged the UPT of the Ministry of Agriculture in West Sumatra to speed up scientific research and cheap rice field certification to become a national program.
He asked West Sumatra to be a pilot for cheap rice fields before being developed to different regions.
Vice -chairman of the House of Representatives Commission IV, Alex Indra Lukman, who has long pronounced the potential of this cheap basic rice field, optimistic that this program can support the national food safety program that is repeated by President Prabowo.
“I don’t think anyone will reject this program because it is very beneficial for farmers, supporting food security and green economy because it is very environmentally friendly,” he said.
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Vice -Governor of West Sumatra, Vasko Russimy also offered full support for the program he called innovation in the agricultural sector.
He has asked academics from various universities in West Sumatra to do scientific research, so that this program could be a National program of West Sumatra.
The initiator of the cheap rice fields, Ir Joni, said he had begun to make innovation since 2020. Encouraged by the fact that the average farmer straw burned after harvest, causing environmental problems, he tried to find ways so that straw could be more useful.
From various experiments he finally discovered that straw could be a replacement for chemical fertilizers. The use of straw as fertilizers makes the country even more resistant to drought.
“Rice fields use fertilizers, cracked and cracked during drought. But cheap rice fields that use straw remain in good condition.
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The technique used in the cheap basic rice fields is divided into mulch without soil (mtot), ie the remaining straw of harvests is not burned, but previously collected and used as a mulch (bottom cover) to maintain moisture and soil fertility.
Then make a trench width of the hoe with a distance between the trench of approximately 125 cm for water regulation. Selection of rice seeds is done by the method of salt water and eggs to guarantee good quality of seeds.
The planting of seedlings is done at the age of 12-14 days after seedling and for water management is carried out by running water in the fields so as not to be flooded to prevent toxic reactions to plants.
Reporter: Syarif Abdullah, Miko Elfisha
Editor: Abdul Hakim Muhiddin
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