Mentan Pagi Ini Dijadwalkan Panen Raya Padi di Berau, Kaltim
Indonesian Minister Will Conduct the Rice Harvest in East Borneo
Editor : M. Achsan Atjo
Translator : Dhelia Gani
Berau, Kalimantan Timur (B2B) - Menteri Pertanian RI, Andi Amran Sulaiman dijadwalkan melakukan panen raya padi di Desa Buyung-buyung, Kecamatan Tambalar, Kabupaten Berau, Kalimantan Timur pada pagi ini, Rabu (12/8).
Kepala Subbagian Pemberitaan dan Publikasi Humas Kementan, Agus Sumantri mengatakan Mentan dijadwalkan tiba di Berau pada Rabu pagi, bertolak dari Samarinda usai melakukan panen raya di Kalimantan Tengah, tepatnya di Desa Terusan Mulia, Kabupaten Kapuas pada Selasa (11/8).
"Setelah panen padi, Mentan Amran Sulaiman dijadwalkan melakukan temu wicara dengan para petani maupun kelompok tani setempat, untuk mendorong peningkatan produksi padi di Kabupaten Berau, untuk mendukung pencapaian swasembada pangan nasional," kata Agus Sumantri, yang tiba di Berau pada Selasa sore bersama sejumlah wartawan dan stafnya.
Agus menambahkan, dalam kata sambutannya saat panen raya di Kapuas, Mentan menegaskan bencana kekeringan yang melanda sejumlah daerah di Indonesia tidak berlaku di Kalimantan, dan dia mengharapkan produktivitas panen di Kalimantan dapat terus meningkat hingga menyamai produktivitas pertanian di Pulau Jawa.
Berau District, Indonesia (B2B) - Indonesian Agriculture Minister, Andi Amran Sulaiman was scheduled to conduct the rice harvest in Buyung-buyung village, Tambalar sub-district of Berau district in East Borneo province on this morning, Wednesday (12/8).
Head of Public Relations Subdivision of the Agriculture Ministry, Agus Sumantri said the minister was scheduled to arrive in Berau on Wednesday morning, departed from Samarinda after rice harvest in Central Borneo province, precisely in Terusan Mulia village of Kapuas district on Tuesday morning (8/11).
"After the rice harvest, the minister is scheduled to conduct a dialogue with the local farmers and farmer groups, to boost rice production in Berau, to support the achievement of national food self-sufficiency," Mr Sumantri who arrived in Berau city on Tuesday afternoon with several of journalists from Jakarta and his staff.
Mr Sumantri added, in his speech during the rice harvest in Kapuas, Minister Sulaiman declared drought that hit several regions in Indonesia does not occur in Borneo, and he expects agricultural productivity in Borneo can be increased as agricultural productivity in Java.
