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A Careless Start to the Food Reserve Forest Program

Monday, April 14, 2025

The Forestry Ministry launches agroforestry planting in designated food reserve forest. The program carries great risk.

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The Ministry of Forestry in collaboration with the Ministry of Agriculture and state forestry firm Perum Perhutani carried out a simultaneous planting event of food crops and integrating forest plants and multi-purpose tree species (MPTS) in an agroforestry system in the Social Forestry Area of Cikawung Village, Terisi District, Indramayu Regency, West Java, February 4, 2025. ppid.menlhk.go.id. tempo : 174557121922.

IN the fields belonging to Cahya, a farmer in Cikawung village, Terisi subdistrict, Indramayu, West Java, stalks of rice struggled to rise above tall wild grasses. On that Monday afternoon, April 7, 2025, the dry land revealed an unpromising contest, some patches of weeds growing taller than the rows of rice plants.

“Just yesterday, the Minister planted upland rice here,” said Cahya, a member of the Tani Jaya 4 Forest Farmers Group (

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