PT RMI WELCOMES AND SUPPORTS THE IMPROVEMENT OF ROAD CLASS IN BINANGUN, RMI: FARMERS ARE INCREASINGLY PROSPEROUS BECAUSE THEY GET EASY ACCESS WHEN SENDING SUGAR CANE.

Rejoso Manis Indo, 10 August 2023 | Penulis : Dinar
PT RMI WELCOMES AND SUPPORTS THE IMPROVEMENT OF ROAD CLASS IN BINANGUN, RMI: FARMERS ARE INCREASINGLY PROSPEROUS BECAUSE THEY GET EASY ACCESS WHEN SENDING SUGAR CANE.
BLITAR - As a sugar industry company located in Blitar Regency, PT Rejoso Manis Indo welcomes and supports the upgrade of the road in Binangun, Blitar Regency, carried out by the PUPR Ministry in August 2023. In addition to being a community access road, the road is a support for sugar production at the Rejoso Manis Indo Sugar Factory located in Binangun District, Blitar Regency.

As a company with a large investment and producing one of the national strategic food products and included as a National Vital Object in the Industrial Sector, the existence of PT RMI primarily supports the government's mission to strengthen national food security. Infrastructure facilities such as roads are one of the main supports for increasing the production of the sugar industry.

In addition, the improvement of this road class also benefits sugarcane farmers who are partners of PG RMI. Before the improvement of this road class, the road infrastructure problem was one of the obstacles for farmers when sending sugar cane. Farmers should be able to send their sugar cane with one haul using a Fuso articulated truck, but due to the inadequate road conditions, farmers have to use an ankle truck and have to haul two to three times when sending their sugar cane.

Before the central government realized the upgrade of this road class, PT Rejoso Manis Indo together with the Blitar Regency Government had taken steps and coordinated with each other to be able to realize the upgrade of the road class in Rejoso Village, Binangun District, Blitar Regency. One of them is by cooperating with a team of experts from ITS to conduct a feasibility study of road class upgrades which will then become a reference for road class upgrades in Binangun.

With the increase in road class in Binangun, PT RMI's opportunity to realize sugar production that can meet national sugar needs is getting bigger. Currently, PG Rejoso Manis Indo has a milling capacity of 10,000 cane per day (TCD). So that PT RMI has the potential to increase production capacity up to 2 times if fully supported by adequate infrastructure.

For information, on August 10, 2023, the East Java-Bali National Road Implementation Center began work on upgrading the Kedungwungu - Ngembul - Rejoso road to Binangun, Blitar Regency. The 10.5 KM road upgrade starts from Binangun Junction 4 to RMI and Kedungwungu - Ngembul, and finally from RMI to Ngembul. And this work plan has been socialized by the East Java National Road Implementation Center in front of Forkopimca Binangun, Representatives of 12 affected villages, side districts such as Panggungrejo, Sutojayan, Wates, Kesamben, PUPR Office, Transportation Office, Blitar Police, and related stakeholders.

Blitar, August 10, 2023 
Putut Hindaruji
Public & Government Relations Manager of PT RMI