Rensing Bat Farmers Start Planting Rice at the End of the Year

Since the beginning of December 2018, farmers in Rensing Bat Village have started planting rice, especially farmers whose fields are upstream in Lepok Hamlet. The advantage this hamlet has is because the water sent by PandanDuri Dam is closer to the Gilen water divider. Rice planting this year is a bit slower than last year due to the lack of rain that had fallen since tobacco planting ended. Several farmers who were met by reporters admitted that at first it was a bit difficult to get water to start planting rice. The tobacco season which ends at the beginning of September means that farmers' rice fields are dry without any crops. This is also because the rain has never fallen since planting tobacco at the end of May. The storage water from the Pandan Duri dam is also unable to irrigate farmers' rice fields as far as Rensing Bat village. Let's leave Lepok Hamlet, let's look at the farmers' rice fields in two hamlets in Rensing Bat village, namely Rensing Bat and Timuk Rurung hamlets, until the new year 2019, farmers whose rice fields are in this hamlet are still busy planting rice because it is difficult to get farmers. Water is sent from the Pandan Duri dam, you have to wait for the water delivery schedule before you can plant rice, said a farmer from Timuk Rurung hamlet whose rice field is far at the southern end of the village who did not want his name to be used. According to data obtained from the Subak Loker Water User Farmers Association (P3A), the total area of ​​agricultural rice fields owned by Rensing Bat village is approximately 162.13 hectares, stretching from the northern part of Lepok hamlet to the south and east of Rensing Bat hamlet and Dusun Timuk Rurung. From the report's review on Sunday, 12/30/2018, there were still around tens of hectares of farmer's rice fields that still could not be irrigated in Rensing Bat hamlet and around 30% of the rice fields were in Timuk Rurung hamlet. Results of the reporter's confirmation with the P3A management, water delivery from Pandan "The thorns will continue to be carried out until the farmers' agricultural areas in these two hamlets have been planted with rice. Then we will focus on the farmers' fields that have been planted which are dry after drying to carry out the first fertilization," explained the P3A chairman, M. Yasin. Yasin further explained, "The situation We must be able to understand this because the water delivery schedule must follow the schedule that has been set by the management at the Pandan Duri Dam, while the water that is outside the schedule is water provided from the trees taken from another schedule to reduce the burden on farmers on those that have not been irrigated.