Batulicin, S Kalimantan (ANTARA) - The Food Security and Agriculture Agency (DKPP) of the District of Tanah Bumbu, South Kalimantan, is anticipating the threat of crop failure in 2023.
"The current action take by field agriculture instructors (PPL) and farmers groups is controlling plant pest organism (OPT) in rice plants," said Head of Food Crops and Horticulture of the agency Robby Chandra in Batulicin, Friday.
They also conducting observation, forecasting, insection, control, analysis and evaluation of results, guiding control, monitoring of OPT distribution areas, visualization and information with farmers and the Food Crop and Horticulture Protection Laboratory team regularly.
This is to ensure that rice plants are truly healthy and free fro pest that can damage rice and cause crop failure.
DKPP had also rehabilitatedi 21 units of tertiary irrigation network from 2014 to 2022, built 34 units of long storage from 2018 to 2022 and built four units of pumping irrigation from 2018 to 2022.
"With these facilities farmers can take water from it source, carry or flowing water from source to agriculture land, distributing water to plants and regulate and measure warter flow," he expounded.
Rabby added that to anticipate crop failure and increasing rice production, the Food Crops and Horticulture Division wwill expand rice planting through land and water management and developing agricultural mechanization.
"In Tanah Bumbu, the region that produce the most rice is Kusan Hilir Sub-district with 32,788 tons from six thousand hectares of land. While Kusan Hulu Sub-district produced 26,152 tons from 2,488 hectares. However, the production results from other sub-districts are below those two sub-districts," Robby said.
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