Pompa Air Demi Swasembada Pangan, Kiat Mentan Atasi Kekeringan
Indonesia Overcome Drought with 30,000 Water Pumps
KEMENTERIAN Pertanian RI menargetkan bantuan pompa air hingga 30 ribu unit untuk mengatasi kekeringan areal persawahan di seluruh Indonesia, yang berasal dari dana refocusing, APBN, dan APBN Perubahan 2015.
Menteri Pertanian RI, Andi Amran Sulaiman mengatakan pemerintah telah mengantisipasi kekeringan secara nasional sejak awal 2015, mendukung petani menjaga produktivitas pertanian agar target swasembada pangan dalam tiga tahun ke depan tetap terwujud.
Komitmen tersebut dibuktikan Menteri Amran Sulaiman dengan menyerahkan bantuan 83 unit pompa air untuk Pemerintah Kabupaten Bojonegoro di di Desa Simorejo, Kecamatan Kanor belum lama ini.
"Pak bupati minta tambahan bantuan 27 unit, saya akan genapkan jadi 300 unit," kata Amran Sulaiman. (Foto2: Humas Kementan/Abiyadun)
INDONESIAN`S Agriculture Ministry targets to relief pump water by 30,000 units to overcome the dryness in rice fields throughout Indonesia from refocusing funds, the state budget, and the 2015 Revised State Budget.
Agriculture Minister, Andi Amran Sulaiman said the government had anticipated the drought since the early 2015, supporting farmers remain productive in order to achieve the target of food self-sufficiency.
The commitment is proved by Minister Sulaiman deliver assistance 83 units of water pumps for Bojonegoro district government at Simorejo village of Kanor sub-district, recently.
"Mr regent requested extra relief of 27 units, but I would add to 300 units," Sulaiman said. (Pictures of Agriculture Ministry PR/Abiyadun)
