By: Choirul Fuadi *)
Central Kalimantan Tengah, CIDISS – Indonesia is a country with a wide variety of landscapes and lush. So, an agricultural country deserved pinned to Indonesia.
Then, the development of food crops, livestock or fisheries if managed properly according to the instructions of technical cultivation will have a good result. Similarly, Central Kalimantan is a province and consists of 13 districts, also developed food crops.
The Governors of Barito Utara (Barut), Nadalsyah explained that the Barito Utara Regency developed hybrid corn with the people of the Mampuak II village, Teweh Timur, the planting season in the October-March 2015/2016.
“Where is the grace of the expanse of natural resources that exist around us, especially agricultural land fertile enough and believed to be empowered to agricultural development, both the development of commodity food crops,” said Nadalsyah.
In the vision and mission development Barito Utara, especially on the scale of priority development has explicitly planned that Barito Utara Regency is directed into agropolitan beef and poultry. The Government of Barito Utara was determined to realize food sovereignty through the efforts of special achievement of food self-sufficiency which covers three main commodities, namely rice, corn and soybeans.
Recently, the Government is constantly working to improve the productivity of farms consistently with a touch of engineering of appropriate technology, including integrated crop management implementations.
“I hope the Teweh Timur district mapping capable be one of our food barns, particularly corn-producing economical scale as well as the production of rice fields which have a comparative advantage and as a flagship area Barito Utara commodity,” said him. [CF]
*) Central Kalimantan Contributor
