The Risk of Failing of the Food Estate
Monday, September 23, 2024
The food estate project in Merauke has the potential to repeat the failures of MIFEE in the past. Developing large-scale agriculture is challenging.
ELEVEN years of returning to peaceful foraging, the residents of Domande village in Malind District, Merauke Regency, South Papua, were suddenly disturbed. This happened when a soldier serving as a village non-commissioned officer (babinsa) conveyed the government’s plan to establish a sugarcane plantation behind the settlement, located about 70.2 kilometers from the city of Merauke.
“He said a new business would come in, and the com
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