The Food State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs) Holding ID Food is conducting development of farming digitalization to bolster productivity of various food commodities produced by holding members.

During a meeting at the parliament building here on Monday, Presidential Director of ID Food Ari Prasetya Adi noted that ID Food will build an integrated farming system from upstream to downstream.

The integrated farming system will be implemented digitally starting from determining planting location points to monitoring plant development through digital farming, he noted.

“We have readied a type of drone to spray fertilizers at several places, so we also mechanize farming,” he remarked.

In addition, digital farming currently being conducted by ID Food encompasses monitoring weather development and potential for the next two or three months to maximize farming.

“Then, we also coordinate the stock data and start to consolidate them at several points, including for the delivery. Distribution to around 60 thousand outlets of food stores had also been digitalized,” Adi noted.

“Thus, we have prepared end-to-end digitalization starting from production to warehouse management system and inventory control until sale in the downstream,” he stated.

In future, the use of precision farming system with technology will also become of the focus areas of ID Food, he remarked.

Minister of SOEs, Erick Thohir, has mandated Food SOEs Holding to have already applied farming technology on account of the fact that various nations abroad have become quite advanced in its implementation.

In addition, ID Food also targets 75,393 farmers to become involved in the Program Makmur (Prosperity Program).

The program will work on 85,886 hectares of land, with the planting target of 82,701 hectares across Indonesia.

The program aims to bolster productivity through a holistic and comprehensive approach to make Indonesian farmers prosperous.

Source: Antara News