New Era of Productive Rice Farming

There were no more portraits of officials wearing bamboo hats, raising paddies and scythes like in the New Order era. Rice harvesters advanced through the muddy fields, reaping, threshing and bagging the paddy.

KOMPAS/ABDULLAH FIKRI ASHRI

Minister of Agriculture Syahrul Yasin Limpo with Deputy Regent of Cirebon Wahyu Tjiptaningsih drives a rice harvesting machine in Jagapura, Gegesik District, Cirebon Regency, West Java, Monday (25/10/2021). During his visit to commemorate World Food Day, Syahrul conveyed the performance of the agricultural sector which remained good in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic.

People packed the roadside along Jl. Jagapura in Gegesik, Cirebon regency, West Java, on Monday (25/10/2021), eagerly watching the various agricultural machinery operating in the paddy fields.

Agricultural equipment and machinery were on display to commemorate the 41st World Food Day. Agriculture Minister Syahrul Yasin Limpo and Cirebon Deputy Regent Wahyu Tjiptaningsih even rode a rice combine harvester as it worked the fields.