Ministry provides aid to W Lombok farmers to anticipate El Nino

Jakarta (ANTARA) – The Agriculture Ministry has distributed manufacturing tools and agricultural equipment help to farmers in West Lombok district, West Nusa Tenggara (NTB) province, to mitigate the influence of El Nino.

Director for agricultural irrigation on the Directorate Common for Agricultural Infrastructure and Amenities on the ministry, Rahmanto, mentioned that his celebration has offered four-wheeled tractors, two-wheeled tractors, transplanters, and water pumps to farmers in Kebon Ayu village, Gerung sub-district.

The El Nino phenomenon, which has been forecast for July 2023, is anticipated to set off an extended drought and thereby, result in a fall in agricultural manufacturing, he famous, based on a written assertion acquired on Thursday.

Therefore, his celebration has additionally helped the area people to ascertain a 700-cubic-meter agricultural pond to keep up water availability within the area in addition to enhance three tertiary irrigation networks for channeling the water from the pond to agricultural land.

The ministry may also construct 5 agricultural roads within the village to assist the farmers transport their produce, thereby decreasing manufacturing prices.

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Rahmanto mentioned he expects that the farmers will make the most of the help optimally to keep up their productiveness and stop a meals disaster amid El Nino.

In keeping with Kebon Ayu village head Jumarsa, the institution of agricultural roads within the village will considerably assist improve native agricultural productiveness, contemplating that a lot of the residents make a residing as farmers.

In the meantime, head of agricultural infrastructure and services on the West Lombok Agricultural Workplace, I Nyoman Sugiartha, knowledgeable that the agricultural roads shall be constructed within the northern a part of the village.

In keeping with info posted on the ministry’s web site, an agricultural street is a transportation infrastructure inbuilt a group’s farming, plantation, or breeding space to ease the mobility of agricultural equipment and tools.

It additionally makes it simpler to move agricultural merchandise to storage homes, processing services, or markets.

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