Mukomuko farmers Switch Oil Plant

MUKOMUKO:Rice farmers in the district Lubuk Pinang, Mukomuko district, Bengkulu province, gradually began to shift to plant palm oil because they do not drain the rice field irrigation water from the Right Wing.
"Farmers are forced to choose a plant commodity corn oil and also because until now they have not been drained rice fields of water," said Commissioner I Mukomuko Regency, Wahid Mubarok in Mukomuko, Friday, March 23, 2012.
About 2,300 hectares of rice fields owned by farmers in two villages in this area that has not drained the water from the Irrigation Right wing, according to him, including SP VIII Prosperous Village Resources about 1,200 hectares and with an area of ​​nearly the same in the village of Mulya corn.
He said most of the land is currently planted with corn commodities, only a small part to plant palm oil, but gradually they began to plant crops because it proved suitable in the land that is not running water.
"Farmers are also not likely to let their vacant land. Soon be his choice, planting corn or palm oil," he said.
He said the Right wing of irrigation facilities which are available in the fields of farmers at this time a new form of primary and secondary channels, while the tertiary channels have not been built especially crater.
"The newly built primary and secondary channels only, while the rice fields so that water can enter the channel to tertiary and further selanjutya crater channel as the channel" worm "that serves to bring water into the rice field farmers," he said.
He explained that the farmers of two villages in this area since the early hopes dibangunan irrigation facilities so that water can drain their fields, but in reality waiting for since the year 2002 until now has not been realized.
"In 2002 the government has launched the construction of irrigation facilities to farmers in 2006 and then enter the location of heavy equipment, but waited until now there is no realization of the construction of tertiary and fourth in kawassan this," she said.
He considered, see current conditions as well as farmers can not be blamed, because they had to do alihfungsi, considering they have been waiting for since the beginning, but there is no realization, and now they are planting a commodity in accordance with the conditions of the land.
Separately, Head of Infrastructure Department of Agriculture, Livestock, Plantation and Forestry District Toyeb Mukomuko previously explained that the current public works service center to record the location of rice fields that have not been full of amenities.(Ant)/eksp