Mentan Suswono akan Kunjungi KRPL di Bengkulu
Suswono will Visit Sustainable Food Home Area in Bengkulu
Editor : Cahyani Harzi
Translator : Dhelia Gani
Bengkulu (B2B) - Menteri Pertanian Suswono dijadwalkan mengunjungi Kawasan Rumah Pangan Lestari (KRPL) di Desa Sukaraja, Kecamatan Sukaraja, Kabupaten Seluma, Provinsi Bengkulu pada Minggu siang (9/2) setelah menghadiri peringatan Hari Pers Nasional bersama Presiden Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono di di Benteng Malborough bersama sejumlah menteri dan para pimpinan redaksi media massa cetak, elektronik, dan online pada Minggu pagi.
Mentan Suswono dijadwalkan akan tiba di Bengkulu pada Minggu pagi mengikuti Hari Pers Nasional, kemudian melanjutkan kunjungan kerja untuk meninjau pengembangan KRPL di kawasan Bukit Peninjauan II, yang dikenal sebagai kawasan transmigrasi asal Jawa sejak awal dekade 70-an.
Sekretaris Desa Sukaraja, Khaidori, 48 tahun, mengatakan di desanya telah berdiri sekitar 50 KRPL yang memanfaatkan lahan pekarangan untuk memenuhi kebutuhan rumah tangga sehari-hari dan selebihnya dijual ke pasar untuk menambah penghasilan keluarga.
"Sambutan warga sangat baik terhadap pengembangan KRPL karena bermanfaat untuk keluarga maupun menambah penghasilan. Dukungan penyuluh pertanian dari dinas pertanian kecamatan hingga kabupaten sangat mendukung KRPL untuk meningkatkan hasil tanaman pekarangan," kata Khaidori kepada B2B, Sabtu sore (8/2).
Suwismiyati, 43, putri transmigran asal Pati, Jawa Tengah mengaku sangat terbantu atas pengembangan KRPL di pekarangan rumahnya dengan tanaman utama adalah kangkung, yang menambah pendapatan Rp50 ribu per minggu dari hasil tanaman di pekarangan.
"Saya semakin semangat menanam kangkung di pekarangan bersama kelompok di sekitar rumah saya, selain dimakan sendiri juga bisa menambah belanja dapur," ungkap wanita yang mengikuti ayah dan ibunya transmigrrasi ke Bukit Peninjauan II ketika masih berusia tiga tahun.
Bengkulu (B2B) - Agriculture Minister Suswono scheduled to visit the Sustainable Food Home Area (KRPL) in Sukaraja village, Sukaraja subdistrict, Seluma district, Bengkulu province on Sunday afternoon (9/2) after attending the National Press Day commemoration with President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono in fort Malborough with a number of ministers and the chief editors of the mass media across Indonesia on Sunday morning.
Suswono scheduled to arrive in Bengkulu on Sunday morning following the National Press Day, then will continue working visit to review the development of Sustainable Food Home Area in Bukit Peninjauan II, known as transmigration areas since the early decades of the 70´s.
Sukaraja village secretary, Khaidori, 48, said in his village there are about 50 Sustainable Food Home Area, which utilizes yard area to meet the needs of households, and the rest they sell it to the market for increase revenue.
"Our people warmly welcome, because it is useful for families, as well as increase revenue. Agriculture extension agents of the subdistrict to district agriculture office is very supportive to improve the quality of the plants in the yard area of our villagers," said Khaidori to B2B, Saturday afternoon (8/2).
Suwismiyati, 43, daughter of transmigrants of Pati, Central Java claimed greatly helped the development KRPL in the yard of his house with a main crop water spinach, which generates revenue of Rp50 thousand per week.
"I´m getting the spirit planted water spinach in the yard with a group around my house, besides eat themselves also can increase revenue," said a woman who followed his father and mother transmigrrasi to a Bukit Peninjauan II, Bengkulu when she was three years old.
