Jakarta, April 15 -- Indonesia's Ministry of Agriculture is making efforts to accelerate electricity connection to reach rice field areas to supply energy for optimizing irrigation water pumping.
"For the modernization of agricultural tools and machinery, effective and efficient energy is needed. To this end, it is time for electricity to reach rice fields," Director of Food Crops at the Ministry of Agriculture Suwandi said in a statement here on Sunday.
Suwandi said that based on various practical field experiences in using energy for the cultivation process in rice fields, farmers found that it was more economical to use electricity, compared to fuel oil and gas.
According to him, Agriculture Minister Andi Amran Sulaiman had given dire...