Mentan Pagi Ini Panen Padi di Takalar, Sulsel

Indonesian Minister Will the Rice Harvest in South Sulawesi

Editor : M. Achsan Atjo
Translator : Dhelia Gani


Mentan Pagi Ini Panen Padi di Takalar, Sulsel
Mentan Andi Amran Sulaiman mendampingi Presiden RI Joko Widodo usai panen padi di Kabupaten Karawang, Jawa Barat pada akhir September lalu (Foto2: B2B/Mya)

Makassar (B2B) - Setelah melakukan panen raya di Kabupaten Wajo dan Kabupaten Takalar pada Senin (26/10), Menteri Pertanian RI Andi Amran Sulaiman melanjutkan kunjungan kerja di Sulawesi Selatan, dengan melakukan panen padi di Kabupaten Takalar pagi ini, Selasa (27/10).

Kunjungan kerja diawali Mentan Amran di Kabupaten Wajo, tepatnya di Desa Ujung Pero, Kecamatan Sabbang Paru, Senin pagi. Dilanjutkan panen padi di Desa Mattombong, Kecamatan Mattiro Sompe, Kabupaten Pinrang.

Seperti biasanya, Mentan akan memberi bantuan alat mesin pertanian, pupuk, benih dilanjutkan berdialog dengan para petani dan para penyuluh pertanian setempat.

"Sesuai pesan Presiden RI Joko Widodo, pemerintah berkomitmen untuk mencapai swasembada pangan melalui modernisasi pertanian sehingga dapat meningkatkan produksi pertanian khususnya beras," kata Amran Sulaiman ketika panen padi di Kabupaten Konawe Selatan, Sulawesi Tenggara akhir pekan lalu.

Makassar, Indonesia (B2B) - After conduct rice harvests in Wajo district and Takalar district on Monday (10/26), Indonesian Agriculture Minister Andi Amran Sulaiman continued his working visit in South Sulawesi province, to conduct the rice harvests in Takalar district this morning, Tuesday (10/27).

He is began working visit in Wajo district, particularly in Ujung Pero village of Sabbang Paru sub-district on Monday morning. Minister Sulaiman continued the rice harvest in Mattombong village of Mattiro Sompe sub-district in Pinrang district.

As usual, Minister Sulaiman will provide assistance of agricultural machinery, fertilizers, seeds and continued dialogue with farmers and local agricultural extension.

"As per orders of President Joko Widodo, the government is committed to achieving self-sufficiency through agricultural modernization in order to increase agricultural production especially rice," he said while rice harvest in South Konawe district of Southeast Sulawesi in last week.