Mohammad Syakir: "1.800 Peneliti Balitbangtan Siap Dukung Swasembada Pangan"
Researchers Support Food Self-sufficiency
Editor : M. Achsan Atjo
Translator : Dhelia Gani
Cimanggu, Bogor (B2B) - Kepala Badan Penelitian dan Pengembangan Pertanian (Balitbangtan) Kementerian Pertanian RI, Mohammad Syakir mengatakan badan yang dipimpinnya didukung 1.800 peneliti dan 121 di antaranya menyandang gelar profesor riset siap mendukung pemerintah mencapai swasembada pangan.
"Kami akan menggerakkan seluruh peneliti dan profesor yang memiliki keahlian dibidangnya seperti hortikultura, pertanian, perkebunan dan peternakan, untuk bekerja bersama-sama pemerintah mewujudkan swasembada,"
kata Mohammad Syakir di sela peninjauan Menteri Pertanian RI Andi Amran Sulaiman di fasilitas penelitian dan pengembangan di Kampus Penelitian Pertanian Cimanggu, Bogor, Jawa Barat pada Jumat (5/6).
Menurut Syakir, pengarahan dan ajakan dari Mentan mendorong pihaknya untuk menghasilkan teknologi dan inovasi yang dapat digunakan para petani meningkatkan produksi pertanian untuk mencapai target swasembada pangan, karena keberhasilan pertanian lebih banyak ditentukan oleh pemanfaatan teknologi dan inovasi.
"Seruan dan ajakan menteri dalam sambutannya tadi mendorong rekan-rekan kami sesama peneliti untuk turun ke lapangan, memberikan pendampingan, mendukung budidaya tanaman hingga proses panen dan pascapanen," kata Syakir, yang baru dilantik sebagai Kepala Balitbangtan pada Senin (1/6) menggantikan Haryono yang memasuki masa pensiun.
Syakir menambahkan rapat kerja Balitbangtan yang mengusung tema ´Sinkronisasi Program Litbang dalam Rangka Mendukung Akselerasi Pencapaian Swasembada Pangan´ untuk menindaklanjuti program Kementerian Pertanian RI yang dirumuskan melalui Musyawarah Perencanaan Pembangunan Pertanian Nasional pada 2-4 Juni di Jakarta.
Bogor, Indonesia (B2B) - The Head of Indonesian Agency for Agricultural Research and Development of Agriculture Ministry, Mohammad Syakir stated the agency that he led supported by 1,800 researchers, and 121 of them as research professor is ready to support Indonesian government achieve food self-sufficiency.
"We will mobilize all researchers and professors for horticulture, food crops, plantations, and farm to support the government realize food self-sufficiency," Mr Syakir said of working visit Agriculture Minister, Andi Amran Sulaiman at the main facility of Cimanggu Agricultural Research Campus in Bogor of West Java province on Friday (6/5).
According to Mr Syakir, guidance of the minister to encourage it to produce the technologies and innovations that are beneficial to farmers to increase agricultural production to achieve food self-sufficiency, agricultural success is determined by the use of technology and innovation.
"The call of minister in his speech was encouraging my colleagues as a fellow to go to the field, to provide assistance, support cultivation to harvest and post-harvest process," he said, who was inaugurated as head of the agency on Monday (6/1) replace Haryono who will retire.
Mr Syakir added Cimanggu working meeting on the theme of ´Synchronization Program to Support Research and Development in Accelerating Achievement of Food Self-Sufficiency´ to follow up the Agriculture Ministry programs that was formulated by the National Agricultural Development Planning Meeting on June 2 to 4 in Jakarta.
