Bengkulu distributes agricultural aid to farmers to boost productivity

Bengkulu (ANTARA) – The Bengkulu administration has distributed agricultural tools and equipment help to farmers to extend the province’s agricultural productiveness amid the extended dry season.

“I hope that the help will profit the neighborhood and assist farmers enhance their agricultural productiveness,” Bengkulu Governor Rohidin Mersyah remarked right here Sunday.

The agricultural help bundle contains 45 electrical plant sprayers, three hand tractors, 22 cultivators, 42 garden machines, three three-wheeled motorbikes, 2,000 litres of natural fertilizer, and 500 kilograms of compound fertilizer.

The bundle was distributed to fifteen farmer teams in Talang Benih Village, Curup Sub-district, Rejang Lebong District.

Governor Mersyah affirmed that the distributed tools and machines don’t belong solely to the farmer group leaders but in addition to all members of every group. He additionally requested the farmers to take excellent care of the help to keep up its sturdiness.

“Please, keep these tools and machines, and I might additionally prefer to stress that each one members of farmer teams have the appropriate to make the most of them,” he said.

The governor then famous that the situation of agricultural actions in Curup Sub-district remains to be higher in comparison with different areas in Bengkulu throughout the ongoing extended dry season.

He noticed that at present, the soil within the province’s coastal areas, comparable to Seluma, Manna, Kaur, North Bengkulu, and Mukomuko, has began cracking, thereby hindering the agricultural manufacturing.

“The irrigation system in Curup is kind of dependable. Therefore, the dry season doesn’t disrupt crops. All of us ought to be thankful for this,” the governor stated.

Other than farmers in Rejang Lebong District, the provincial authorities additionally distributed related help to farmers in Kaur District in early October.

In complete, 5 farmer teams in Kaur District acquired tractors, whereas 14 farmer teams obtained plant pest sprayers.

These agricultural help packages are aimed to assist the farmers in Rejang Lebong and Kaur enhance their manufacturing of meals crops, particularly rice, for the reason that two districts function Bengkulu’s rice-producing areas.

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