Vegetable plantation threatens city

Vegetable plantation threatens city

BOGOR: The plan of a private company to turn a former tea
plantation in South Cisarua into a vegetable plantation could
endanger the city because the area, covering 300 hectares of land
in the Puncak mountainous resort, would not be able to function
as a water catchment area to protect Jakarta from floods.

Head of the local National Land Agency, Hadi Priyatna,
revealed on Wednesday that PT Mamapapa had applied for a permit
from the regency administration to use the land as a vegetable
plantation.

Hadi, who visited the location last week, said that the area
that is located on a hillside should not be planted with
vegetables. Otherwise, it would not be able to sustain its
function as a catchment area. He also said that it might result
in soil erosion. --JP