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Special Reports

Interview 1

Moh Gwo-jong, Chief,
Taiwan Technical Mission in Indonesia

Raising Indonesia’s competitiveness through Taiwan’s
smart greenhouse environmental control system

In recent years, the economy supply. With extension training actual observations of crop growth,
of Indonesia has maintained a 5 in agricultural organizations and they provided farmers with improved
percent growth rate, an outstanding provision of a demonstration procedures for cultivating a variety of
achievement among Southeast greenhouse with environmental crops, seeking the most appropriate,
Asian countries. Faced with an controls, plus special improved profitable and feasible technology
increasingly high-consumption seed varieties and improvements that corresponded to their economic
market, the government is keen to in post-harvest marketing, we were capacity.
upgrade the industries but has been able to help farmers improve their B e s i d e s t h i s , t h r o u g h
unable to keep up with the pace of ability to produce excellent fruit and establishment and transfer of
economic growth. Taking fruit and vegetables. virus-free seedling propagation
vegetable garden production in the technology, the TTM provided
agricultural sphere for example, the Building a development model training in analysis of effective
market is glutted with imports and for integrated production and production periods, energy usage,
both domestic yield and quality are marketing operations effective manpower and cultivation
low. Domestic producers are not Moh Gwo-jong, chief of requirements. Gradually, these
competitive, and profits are meager. the Taiwan Technical Mission efforts brought about effective
As for the reason behind the low (TTM) in Indonesia responsible use of materials, better use of the
quality, Indonesia suffers from a hot for implementing this project, greenhouse with beneficial turnover
tropical climate, farmers have limited pointed out that in May 2016 the rates, and an optimum method for
resources to invest, production TaiwanICDF introduced Taiwanese controlling costs and increasing
management is extensive rather than materials and technology to build profits.
intensive, and crop diseases and Indonesia’s first smart greenhouse Looking back, TTM technical
insect pests are rampant. Added with environmental controls as a cooperation projects in Indonesia
to the inordinate and chaotic use learning demonstration base for have followed along with the growth
of pesticides and fertilizer, under improving the automated handling of the Indonesian economy for
international pressure in recent and cultivation of seedlings, as well some 40 years. Moh described
years to lift import quotas, which as a collection center for sorting, how projects have evolved from
has caused a price collapse of grading, washing, packaging and promotion of traditional farming at the
local products, it has been difficult transporting post-harvest produce, beginning with introduction of fruit
to improve the quality of agricultural thus providing a development and vegetable varieties, extension
products and resulted in a vicious model for integrated production and of cultivation and promotion of
cycle. marketing operations. “One Village, One Product” in the
To solve this problem, beginning After completion of the agricultural industry, to today’s
in 2015, the Taiwan government greenhouse, the TTM selected development of agricultural
commissioned the TaiwanICDF five important crops and began automation. Not only did the
to cooperate with the Indonesian to collect data from the seedling approach make good use of Taiwan’s
Ministry of Agriculture to jointly and cultivation stages, gradually experience and keep pace with the
p ro m o te t h e Strengthening establishing a standard operating times, it also made a contribution to
Incubator Agribusiness with procedure. In addition, they recorded the partner and friendly countries,
Human Resources Development environmental factors affecting crop echoing the mission and spirit of
in Bandung Project in West Java, growth by analyzing data from the the government’s New Southbound
a densely populated key area for greenhouse environmental control Policy.
fruit and vegetable production and system. Following an analysis of

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