PT Rejoso Manis Indo Participates in Soil Sampling Training for Sugarcane Fields Organized by Gapgindo

Rejoso Manis Indo, 10 April 2023 | Penulis : Dinar
PT Rejoso Manis Indo Participates in Soil Sampling Training for Sugarcane Fields Organized by Gapgindo
Gapgindo Chairman Dr. Syukur Iwantoro, MM (right) at the Technical Guidance on Soil Fertility Management for Sugarcane Plantations in Bogor.
Bogor - PT Rejoso Manis Indo participated in a training on soil sampling held in Bogor, from April 4 to April 5, 2023. This training was held for the first time by the Indonesian Sugar Producers Association (Gapgindo) together with the Agricultural Land Resources Standard Instrument Testing Center of the Agricultural Instrument Standardization Agency (BBPSI SDLP) under the auspices of the Ministry of Agriculture. The training participants were officers from a number of sugar factories incorporated in Gapgindo.

The soil sampling process is an important part of a series of tests to determine soil fertility. Knowing soil fertility will determine soil management, including the right fertilizer composition.

Chairman of Gapgindo and President Director of PT Rejoso Manis Indo, Dr. Ir Syukur Iwantoro, MM, said that the training was held due to concerns over the unavailability of special sugarcane fertilizers in Indonesia and each region requires specific fertilizers.

For now, sugar factories generally import fertilizers whose licensing process sometimes takes two years. Syukur hopes that each sugar factory can take soil samples at the location of their respective sugarcane fields. Furthermore, the samples can be tested at BBPSI SDLP. Furthermore, sugar factories can take advantage of knowledge about appropriate fertilizer formulas, for example by ordering from domestic fertilizer factories.