REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, KENDARI -- Cacao farmers in Southeast Sulawesi receive Rp750,000 per hectare in social aid to boost cacao production and improve quality.
"The social aid is sent directly to their bank account," head of the provincial plantation and horticulture office Bambang said here on Wednesday.
The assistance is for 37,000 hectares of cacao plantations in the province, bringing the total amount of the assistance to Rp28 billion this year, Bambang said giving no details about the number of the recipients.
The plantations are located in b12 regencies including Konawe, Kolaka, Muna, Buton, Kota Kendari, Kota Baubau, Konawe Selatan, Bombana, Wakatobi, Kolaka Utara, Konawe Utara and Buton Utara, he said.
The farmers would use the fund to tend their crop, to be more productive and better in quality.
Indonesia is the third largest cacao producer in the world after the Ivory Coast and Ghana and Sulawesi is the main cacao grower in the country.
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