Japan's
NHK TV station, in cooperation with PT Bio Greenland will promote the castor
potential of Sumbawa in Japan.
Mr. Nobuyoshi Hara, a Japanese investor who accompanied by Mr.Azusa Miyazaki
from TV Japan, in a meeting with the local government of Sumbawa, Wednesday
(14/11) and at the Office of Sumbawa Regent, claimed to have synthetic oil
companies (Kokura Gosei Synthetic) that require castor material from the raw
oil.
Mr. Nobuyoshi said, PT Bio Greenland is now being invested in Sumbawa has been
unable to supply castor oil in the company as needed.
According to Mr. Nobuyoshi, the company requires 10 thousand tones of castor oil
per year.
He hoped that the raw materials can be supplied from Sumbawa regency with PT
Bio Greenland.
Therefore he hoped the government of Sumbawa District in order to help their
companies by developing castor, because of the potential land for development
within this area is very big, but not worked up, so the need for castor oil in
the company are met.
Besides teams from city of Kitakyushu will help the government and communities
to develop castor in Sumbawa, of which promote the potential of castor Sumbawa
in Japan through Japanese television stations, in addition they will also
promise to support PT Bio Greenland by providing castor processing technologies
to be more maximum.
Meanwhile Sumbawa Regent, Drs.H.Jamaluddin Malik (JM) , who officially welcome
the Japanese team expressed appreciation for the visit of the Japanese TV
stations, as well as a visit from one of the Japanese investors.
On that occasion, JM requested the relevant SKPD order to capture these
opportunities by trying to develop castor in the community, so that this
opportunity can be utilized to the maximum.
Against considerable farmland is expected to be maximized the use, in
collaboration with farmers.
"With the availability of enough land is potential to increase the
production of castor, especially the Japanese government has given full support
to receive castor raw materials from Sumbawa," he explained.
JM hope through cooperation with governments and investors from Japan, the
production of castor in Sumbawa can meet their needs.
Sourced by : Radar Sumbawa Newspaper