The Ministry of State-Owned Enterprises (BUMN) continues to coordinate and collaborate with various ministries including the Ministry of Agriculture to make improvements in the agricultural sector. State-owned companies that do a lot of work in the agricultural sector such as fertilizers, plantations, and others are making improvements and synchronizing data. Data synchronization and technical cooperation with the Ministry of Agriculture are very important because many of the agricultural sectors are being encroached upon by SOEs. Cooperation with the Ministry of Agriculture has started with the Farmer Data Program with the State-Owned Enterprises Bank (Himbara) and Telkom. Another technical cooperation is the procurement of seeds, because agricultural seeds are an important factor to get good agricultural products.

As is known, there are quite a number of SOEs engaged in palm oil, sugar cane, coffee and cocoa commodities, so that the procurement of seeds is an important part of plantation development. Moreover, many state-owned plantations have collaborated with farmers to support the production of state-owned enterprises such as oil palm and sugar cane. Procurement of seeds for oil palm and sugar cane farmers requires cooperation between the Ministry of SOEs and the Ministry of Agriculture so that farmers get the best and certified seeds. The experience of BUMN engaged in this field has found many fake certified seeds purchased by farmers from third parties. The fake certified seeds are very detrimental to the farmers because it has a big impact on their commodity yields and of course this will also harm the BUMN because it has an impact on the supply volume to the BUMN factories. This condition makes the Ministry of State-Owned Enterprises encourage cooperation for data and technical synchronization with the Ministry of Agriculture so that on the one hand farmers get the best seeds on the other hand the production target is achieved.

Source: https://m.merdeka.com/uang/kementerian-bumn-dan-pertanian-kolaborasi-benahi-bibit-pertanian.html