Project Name：High Quality Rice Seed Development Project in South Sulawesi（Indonesia）

Project status：Completed projects

Cooperating Country：Indonesia

Project Description：

Rice is the main food crop in Indonesia. However, domestic production has been insufficient to meet increasing needs of the country’s growing population and Indonesia still has to import rice from other countries. In South Sulawesi, one of the nation’s important rice producing areas, the use of uncertified seeds further limits the province's capacity to expand rice production. In order to improve this situation, Hasanuddin University proposed this project with the aim to increase local rice production in South Sulawesi through technology and research cooperation. The project includes two core objectives: 1. To improve the technology of qualified rice seed production; 2. To build up cooperative units’ capacity of rice production.

Implementation Start Date：2018-07-01

Implementation End Date：2020-12-31

Project Objectives：

1. To produce 3,000 tons rice seed in 300 hectors of rice field (two seasons).
2. To introduce seed production technology into the Faculty of Agriculture of Hasanuddin University, so that it can become a diversified agricultural development center for rice production, promotion, post-harvest processing, storage, distribution and marketing.

Executing Agency：

Taiwan Technical Mission in the Republic of Indonesia / Faculty of Agriculture, Hasanuddin University

Current Progress：

To the end of Decembere following activities have been completed:
1. Continue to counsel local farmers in cultivating 300 hectares of seed fields for production of qualified rice seeds.
2. Complete transplanting of 335ectares of seed fields.
3. Produce 3,700metric tons of qualified rice seeds.
4. Finish constructing the greenhouse and warehouse .
5. Hold six seminars for rice seed producers.

Project Contact：Elisa,Yu-chi CHANG

Phone：886-2-28732323 Ext. 221

E-mail：yc.chang@icdf.org.tw

Mission：Taiwan Technical Mission in the Republic of Indonesia