Promised Prosperity
The Merauke Food Estate was officially launched in August. This place is very promising as the national center of food—with a few constraints, namely poor legal protection, environment and spatial layout as well as poor infrastructure.
October 13, 2010
MORE than 200 hectares of corn fields in Kurik district, Merauke regency, Papua, lies idle. In the district of Wasur—in the same regency—40 hectares of land lie barren ever since the last corn harvest late last year. At that time the land administrator, PT Bangun Tjipta Sarana, intended to sow seeds a month later, pending the end of the rainy season. Until now, nine months gone past, the plantations have not yet yielded crops.
The corn busin
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