Kuantan Singingi regency has some 5,000 hectares of former illegal gold mines in all districts but only 4,819 ha of rice fields.
Abandoned illegal gold mines in Kuantan Singingi regency, Riau, will be transformed into rice fields to strengthen the food production sector and accelerate the achievement of the rice self-sufficiency target.
Kuantan Singingi regent Suhardiman Amby explained that using abandoned illegal gold mines which were not remediated or normalized as agriculture land is a strategic step toward expanding planting surface area in the regency.
“Other than supporting the Planting Index (IP) 200 program, so farmers can harvest twice a year, turning illegal gold mines into rice fields is a strategy to increase farming productivity,” he said on Wednesday.
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