Kampung Kriku Keerom Regency Harvest Padi Perdana
Under the guidance of the Papuan Pelangi Cooperative Primer, finally the Kriku indigenous people, especially from Bewangkir, were able to realize that their village had rice fields and eventually led to the first rice harvest in the village, certainly with a path that faced various obstacles.
In his opportunity, Deputy Regent of Keerom, Piter Gusbager S. Hut, MUP said, after the Prime Rice Harvesting was carried out, the agricultural development strategy in Keerom in the future led to the creation of rice self-sufficiency in districts in Keerom Regency.
‘’ Today we see historical events for the Keerom indigenous people in the Tabi region, because this is the first time that the Keerom adat area has harvested rice. This is a good work for this country, for the land of Papua. And the rice planted in Kriko is not only for Keerom people but all people who live in the land of Papua, '' Piter said during the first harvest.
The entire Keerom land will create food barns for Papua province and even regions including neighboring PNG, '' continued the number two person in Keerom. He also acknowledged that what the community was doing was a whip for the Keerom District Government.
"What the indigenous people are doing today is to be autocrotic to the government, that we must support this community initiative and realize what the community dreams of becoming real," he said.
As Vice Regent of Keerom, he gave full support to the Kriku indigenous people who were incorporated as farmers in the Karya Makmur farmer group to continue planting rice and towards rice self-sufficiency in Kriku.
Meanwhile, Chairman of the Karya Makmur Farmer Group in Kampung Kriku, Martinus Bewangkir said that as many as 60 families of the Bewangkir traditional people plunged in and participated in rice farming in 25 hectares of rice fields that had been successfully planted.
"We are happy because so far we have never planted rice, but we want to farm and try to plant rice, currently 500 hectares are ready to be printed paddy fields, which we are working on is 25 hectares. The harvest can be estimated at 15-16 tons, we are happy and in the future we are ready to continue farming, '' he said.
While the Primary Chairperson of the Pelangi Papua Cooperative, Sudiono, said that the rice fields in my kriku were part of the rice fields that were aspired to be printed in an area of ??1000 hectares in Keerom Regency. After previously in Skanto, now in the village of Kriku indigenous people.
"We plan to make 1000 H in 2017, together with the Regent of Watae we hope that what we have designed with the archipelago food security foundation, with the costs incurred by the foundation entirely, without government assistance. We ask the government to welcome this, to realize my krik as a rice barn in Papua , "he said.
Because according to him, Pelangi Papua only supported and fostered, the results had been bought by the community, he even admitted that there had been an MoU with Bulog, Kemendes and PDT, and now he had pocketed permits from 3 ministries to develop the border area as a granary.
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