The Government will provide funding puso Rp 3, 7 million per hectare for rice farmers People's Business Credit participants so that they can grow rice to pay back loans

Suswono

The Government will provide funding puso Rp 3, 7 million per hectare for rice farmers People's Business Credit participants so that they can grow rice to pay back loans

The Government will provide funding puso Rp 3, 7 million per hectare for rice farmers People's Business Credit participants so that they can grow rice to pay back loans, said Agriculture Minister Suswono in Pekalongan, Central Java, on Saturday.

"For rice farmers who have taken the People's Business Credit (KUR) and then crop failure or puso, then the report shall be verified and the Provincial Agriculture Office then got the next growing cost Rp 3, 7 million per hectare," he said during a dialogue with dozens of farmers' groups in the village Kebon Court, District Kajen, Pekalongan, Saturday afternoon.

Minister of Agriculture asked farmers not hesitate to borrow through the KUR order to implement the balanced fertilization with additional compost as proven to increase the production of 1-2 tons per hectare.

"The application of balanced fertilizer per hectare with a composition of 100 kilograms and 300 kilograms of urea fertilizer NPK and a ton of organic fertilizer or compost requires an additional approximately $ 1 million but the extra income can Rp4 to Rp 8 million for the current grain price above Rp4.000 per kilogram," he said.

He reveals, KUR farmers without collateral can be filed with the maximum running Rp20 million and 21 percent interest per year, while if menganjukan KUR with collateral then could kucurannya to five times the value of the collateral to the rate of 14 percent per year.

"If you have collateral worth of credit submissions Food Security Credit then there were flowers only 6 per cent per year," he said.

According to the Minister of Agriculture, food prices will continue to rise due to the need to increase its agricultural lands increasingly limited food, coupled with the frequent occurrence of extreme weather in many parts of the world.

"It is estimated the year 2045 the world food demand will double from current needs as the world population reaches 9 billion, this indicates better crop prospects," he said.

He calculates, if using intensification and balanced fertilization, with an average production of paddy seven tons of milled rice per hectare the farmer's income reached Rp 30 million, while the cost of production of about 6 million, the income of farmers reached Rp24 million per 4 months or 6 million per month.

Government seeks food security by targeting surplus rice production reached 10 million tons in 2014 so the Minister of Agriculture asked for the head of the region seek to increase rice production and to guard against crop farm land converted to non-food crops.

"In the future, not just the ease of KUR and fertilizer subsidies, but there are also subsidized seeds so farmers will be more interested in maintaining rice farming," he said.

After the dialogue, accompanied by Agriculture Minister Regent Pekalongan Amat Antono reviewing farmer groups producing compost Salit Village, District Kajen and Purwodadi Village, District Sragen.

The Minister also visited the mini ponds in the village Pododadi, District Karanganyar capable of maintaining the availability of water for five months of the dry season for an area of ​​20 hectares planted with durian, rambutan, longan and banana.