Jakarta Acting Governor, Heru Budi Hartono together with 75 orphanage children under Jakarta Social Agency (Dinsos), visited the Agro Education Tour, Friday (1/13).

It will become a routine agenda for orphans

Those 75 orphanage children were from Putra Utama 1 Social Institution (PSAA), Putra Utama 2 PSAA, Putra Utama 3 PSAA, and Cahaya Batin Blind and Speech Deaf Social Institution (PSBNRW).

On that occasion, they went around to see various cultivation of plants and catfish. The Acting Governor also took the time to plant eggplants with the orphanage children.

He also handed over the harvest to the orphanage children symbolically. The crops were corn, tomatoes, eggs, milk, and catfish. The activity continued with the planting of chili seeds on the farm.

Dinsos Head, Premi Lasari uttered this activity aims to educate how to grow crops, as well as introduce various types of fruit and vegetables, including how to breed livestock to the children.

"It will become a routine agenda for orphans in social institutions to understand and know about the environment outside social institutions and schools," she expressed.

As for the information, the Agro Education Tour has a 2.5-hectare-land planted with various types of fruit and vegetable varieties such as melons, sweet corn, lettuce, mustard greens, and strawberries which usually live in cold temperatures.

One of the modern methods applied in this agro-tourism park is container farming. The container truck is transformed into a giant refrigerator for hydroponic plant cultivation. This cultivation is claimed to be able to make plants free of diseases and pests because the air and light have been regulated in such a way.