340,000 Workers Needed for Oil Palm Plantations
Implementation of the government's oil palm plantation revitalization program on 2 million hectares of land in 2007-2011 will require the employment of about 340,000 people, an Agriculture Department official said.
The department needs 298,000 people to work as oil palm farmers, 24,000 to work in the oil palm cultivation sector and 18,000 in palm oil factories, head of its human resources development division, Ato Suprapto, said recently, according to Antara.
The department would also need 637,500 people to work in public oil palm plantations covering 1.5 million hectares over the next five years. "The revitalization program will hopefully make Indonesia the world's largest palm oil producer and exporter in 2012, " Suprapto said.
The department needs 298,000 people to work as oil palm farmers, 24,000 to work in the oil palm cultivation sector and 18,000 in palm oil factories, head of its human resources development division, Ato Suprapto, said recently, according to Antara.
The department would also need 637,500 people to work in public oil palm plantations covering 1.5 million hectares over the next five years. "The revitalization program will hopefully make Indonesia the world's largest palm oil producer and exporter in 2012, " Suprapto said.