Banjarmasin, South Kalimantan 4/1 (AntaranewsKalsel) - An oil palm plantation owner in South Kalimantan H Karli Hanafi said this commodity business began to decrease and no longer encouraging.
The reason both the selling price of fresh fruit bunches (TBS) and crude palm oil (CPO) have not increased significantly, he said when answering AntaranewsKalsel here on Wednesday.
While funding for the exploitation and maintenance of oil palm plantations is expensive, such as labor and means of production, for example fertilizer, continued Karli who is familiarly called Akang.
But the businessman who is now a member of South Kalimantan DPRD's Commission II on economic and financial affairs did not specify the ratio between operating costs and outcome from selling production of oil palm plantations.
But he was still optimistic that oil palm plantations in time will recovered and back to encouraging.
"Because a lot of other products require follow-up product of oil palm plantations, which became the needs of many, such as cooking oil and cosmetics," said the alumnus of the University of Lambung Mangkurat Banjarmasin.
"One of the problems for plantations, especially oil palm plantations, is the fertilizer price high enough, without subsidies, with the exception of smallholdings," said Akang.
