Tuesday, 01 December 2020
Adan Krayan Rice Must Be Protected
Samarinda, 19/7/12. Superior rice originating from the northernmost region of East Kalimantan, namely Krayan, which is a border area with the State 
Malaysia's neighbors are in the Regency area Nunukan, East Kalimantan Province, must receive special attention from the government and its existence must be protected.
This was expressed by Professor Riyanto, one of the expert team from the East Kalimantan Food Estate while attending a meeting with the Research Team from the Ministry of Agriculture of the Republic of Indonesia in the East Kalimantan Bappeda Propeda meeting room, Jl. Kusuma Bangsa Samarinda was attended by approximately fifty people at the meeting from various related SKPDs within the East Kalimantan Provincial Government and Regency Governments in the East Kalimantan border area.
The special discussion on the superior potential of agriculture in the East Kalimantan border area received very good appreciation from the participants who attended, led directly by the Head of the East Kalimantan Bappeda, DR.Ir.H. Rusmadi.MS who when leading the meeting wore a brown batik bag, and was accompanied by the Research Director of the Ministry of Agriculture of the Republic of Indonesia, Prof. Husein Sawit who was accompanied by Prof. Suwandi and from the East Kalimantan Agricultural Research and Development Agency.
Researchers from the Ministry of Agriculture of the Republic of Indonesia have long conducted surveys and research in border areas, even surveys as far as Sabah, Malaysia, to look for various data about agricultural potential and results in the East Kalimantan border area, most of the results of which are marketed in neighboring countries, both Malaysia and Brunei Darussalam.
This was conveyed by Prof. Decianto, one of the Research Team from the Ministry of the Republic of Indonesia who took part in the meeting, even the opinion of the East Kalimantan Provincial Agriculture Service that the Cocoa plantations in the Sebatik area of East Kalimantan initially had an area of approximately 11 thousand – 20 thousand hectares and the latest data in 2012 was reduced very drastically to only approximately 3,200 hectares, the impact of the existence of oil palm plantations was refuted on the grounds that the cocoa plantations which had been the mainstay of the people of the Sebatik Island area were old areas that had managed and close with community villages, while oil palm plantations are new land openings, so they do not have much of an impact on cocoa plantation land, if the land is reduced it is unlikely that there will be a very large and significant reduction. Said Prof. Decianto. (Public Relations of the East Kalimantan Bappeda/Sukandar, S.Sos).
