Cibesel Flat Citizens Liven Up Urban Farming
Reported by Budhi Firmansyah Surapati | Translated by Nugroho Adibrata
Citizens living in Cipinang Besar Selatan Flat Tower, East Jakarta are holding a urban farming program or move the conventional agriculture to urban agriculture by utilizing unused land around the tower.
Despite is not a lot, yet can help the family economic
As a result, over the past year, it had been three harvests from a variety of vegetables.
West Jakarta Applies Urban Farming SystemTia Fitri Hariyani, Manager of Empowerment Function's UMKM and Inclusive Financial for Indonesia Bank disclosed her side does assistance to more than 20 housewives who are the tower citizens.
"They are taught and facilitated planting varieties of productive plants such as eggplant, pepper, tomato, cucumber and lettuce. Land that we use about 5,000 square meters," she expressed, Friday (1/20).
She explained, during the coaching, there is only found problem related to marketing of the crop. IT has an impact on unoptimal profit of citizens.
"Every harvest, we can produce hundreds of thousands rupiah. Despite is not a lot, yet can help the family economic," she uttered.
