Mentan Diharapkan Panen Padi di Bone Bolango pada Maret 2016
Indonesian Agriculture Minister Expect to Rice Harvest in Gorontalo`s Bone Bolango
Editor : M. Achsan Atjo
Translator : Dhelia Gani
Bone Bolango, Gorontalo (B2B) - Para petani di Kabupaten Bone Bolango, mengharapkan Menteri Pertanian RI Andi Amran Sulaiman dapat kembali berkunjung ke Provinsi Gorontalo pada saat panen padi di awal Maret 2016, setelah sang menteri mengurungkan niatnya melakukan kunjungan kerja di Gorontalo pada Senin petang (14/7) lantaran mendadak harus kembali ke Jakarta pada sore itu juga via Makassar.
"Kami berharap Mentan Amran Sulaiman sebagai bapaknya petani Indonesia mau segera datang lagi ke Gorontalo, paling tidak waktu panen padi di Bone Bolango awal Maret tahun depan untuk mendorong dan membangkitkan motivasi petani, penyuluh, dan instansi terkait untuk meningkatkan produktivitas pangan," kata Kepala Dinas Pertanian Tanaman Pangan, Fenny Monoarfa kepada B2B pada Senin petang di Desa Poowoh, Kecamatan Kabila, Kabupaten Bone Bolango.
Sebagaimana dilaporkan, setelah kunjungan kerja di Manado, Sulawesi Utara pada Minggu malam dan Senin pagi
djadwalkan melakukan pencanangan tanam padi di Desa Poowoh, Kecamatan Kabila bersama Kepala Staf TNI AD Jenderal TNI Mulyono, Gubernur Gorontalo Rusli Habibie, Bupati Bone Bolango Nurdin Mokoginta kemarin sore.
Mentan sempat mendarat di Bandara Djalaludin Gorontalo dengan menumpang helikopter bersama Kasad Jenderal TNI Mulyono, tapi Mentan kemudian bertolak ke Jakarta via Makassar dengan pesawat reguler pada pukul 15:40 WITA.
Kasubbag KP Kementerian Pertanian, Mohammad Haswardany mengatakan, Mentan mengurungkan kunjungan kerja di Gorontalo karena harus mendampingi Presiden RI Joko Widodo di Istana Negara Jakarta pagi ini, Selasa (15/12).
Haswardany menambahkan bahwa Mentan setelah melakukan tanam serentak Mentan akan memberikan bantuan benih, pupuk, dan alat mesin pertanian (Alsintan) kepada petani di Bone Bolango dilanjutkan dengan dialog bersama para petani dan penyuluh pertanian setempat.
Menurut Monoarfa, atas dukungan Kementerian Pertanian RI dan dorongan dari Mentan Amran Sulaiman maka Bone Bolango berhasil meningkatkan produktivitas padi rata-rata enam ton per hektar pada 2015 daripada tahun lalu rata-rata hanya 5,2 ton per hektar.
"Produk beras Bone Bolango juga selalu surplus, dan surplus tahun ini mencapai enam ribu ton dan kami dapat menjualnya ke kabupaten tetangga bahkan sampai ke provinsi Sulawesi Utara," kata Monoarfa yang dijumpai B2B usai gladi resik menyambut kunjungan kerja Mentan.
Bone Bolango, Indonesia (B2B) - The farmers of Bone Bolango district expects Indonesian Agriculture Minister Andi Amran Sulaiman return visit to Gorontalo province at the time of rice harvest in early March 2016, after the minister dissuade a working visit in Gorontalo on Monday afternoon (14/7) because of a sudden need to return to Jakarta via Makassar, South Sulawesi province.
"We hope Minister Sulaiman as the father of farmers soon come again to Gorontalo, at least in the early rice harvest in March next year to facilitate and encourage the motivation of farmers, extension workers, and relevant agencies to increase food productivity in this area," said head of Bone Bolango´s agriculture department office, Fenny Monoarfa to B2B in here on Monday evening in Poowoh village of Kabila sub-district.
As reported, after a working visit in Manado, North Sulawesi province on Sunday night and Monday morning, Mr Sulaiman was scheduled to launched paddy planting season in Poowoh village of Kabila sub-district with Chief of Staff Indonesian Army Gen. Mulyono; Gorontalo Governor Rusli Habibie; Bone Bolango Regent, Nurdin Mokoginta on Monday.
On Monday afternoon, Mr Sulaiman and Gen. Mulyono and their entourage have been landed in Gorontalo´s Djalaluddin Airport but the minister then flew to Jakarta via Makassar at 03:40 pm.
Indonesian´s Agriculture Ministry spokesman, Mohammad Haswardany said that his boss was canceled his visit in Gorontalo because it must be accompanied President Joko Widodo at the State Palace here this morning,
Mr Haswardany added Minister Sulaiman after paddy planting season was scheduled to will provide assistance such as agriculture machines, seeds and fertilizers to the Bone Bolango´s farmers will continue dialogue with farmers and agriculture extention workers.
According to Mr Monoarfa, as supports of the ministry´s and the encouragement of Minister Sulaiman so that Bone Bolango managed to increase rice productivity average of six tonnes per hectare in 2015 than last year´s average of 5.2 tons per hectare.
"Bone Bolango rice products always surplus, and the surplus this year reached six thousand tons, so we can sell to other districts in Gorontalo province even to the North Sulawesi province," he said here to the B2B
