Because the Ministry of Agriculture will try to accelerate the achievement of self-sufficiency in rice and corn and soybean production increase in less than three years.
To smooth out the plan, the Minister of Agriculture, Amran Solomon ensure distribution of fertilizers to farmers on time. According to him, if the timely distribution of fertilizer, while crop production in accordance with the government's target.
"If the distribution of fertilizer late one week, will impact a loss of 1 ton. If 5 million ha of fertilizer that is delivered late, the state lost 5 million tons of rice. 5 million tons of rice that can be self-sufficient," said Amran, while providing information on Management Training Center and Agricultural Leadership, Ciawi, Bogor, West Java, on Monday (02/16/2015).
According Amran, the distributor must distribute timely fertilizer. Therefore, the performance of the distributor will be monitored. If the distribution of fertilizer late, the Ministry of Agriculture will give them an ultimatum revoke the operating license.
"They can not timely distribution of fertilizer then we pull the permit. Ministry of Agriculture will assign one person to be placed in one district to supervise," said Amran.
In addition to monitoring the distribution of fertilizer, said Amran, to note also is the matter of irrigation and agricultural machinery.
"So the irrigation repair, procurement of seeds, fertilizers and agricultural machinery within three years I believe productivity will go up. During this time the damage irrigation, low absorption of seeds and fertilizers and the lack of use of agricultural machinery became a key inhibitor of self-sufficiency, "said Amran.
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