AS many as 13 companies are ready to develop palm plantations in Papua covering an area of 352,651 hectares. Five of them have begun operating while the rest are in the process of preparing the land.

Director of Seedlings and Production Means of the Directorate General of Plantations of the Department of Agriculture, Darmansyah Basyaruddin, is optimistic that with the total investment in trillions of rupiah, the prosperity of the Papuan people w