Project Name：Expanding High-Quality Rice Seed Production in South Sulawesi

Project status：Completed projects

Cooperating Country：Asia-Pacific, Indonesia

Project Description：

This project is an extension of the High Quality Rice Seed Development Project in South Sulawesi (hereinafter referred to as the first phase of the project). Through the first phase of the project, in addition to increasing local rice seed production, it also increased the profits of local rice seed producers. The demand for rice seeds in South Sulawesi Province is 33,000 tons per year. At present, the qualified rice seed production capacity in the province is only about 13,000 tons, including 3,000 tons of rice seeds produced by the first phase of the project. This project accounts for 23 percent of South Sulawesi Province’s rice seed production.

The Ministry of Agriculture asked the South Sulawesi Provincial Government to help promote the production of 1,000 hectares of rice seeds. In view of the successful results of the first phase of the project, Hasanuddin University was designated to participate in the program. In order to comply with national policy and learn from the experience of the first phase of the project, Hasanuddin University proposed to Taiwan a three-year cooperation project, Expanding High-Quality Rice Seed Production in South Sulawesi. This project will focus on rice seed production and smart agriculture. In addition to promoting 400 hectares of rice farming, handling training workshops, and revising the promotion manual of rice seed and rice cultivation, it will also establish simple meteorological stations, introducing smart monitoring technology for climate observation to predict the adverse effects of climate phenomena on rice seed production. The project also expects to introduce suitable rice varieties from the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) for cultivation observation, and invite international experts to come and share issues and applications related to smart agriculture and climate resilience.

Region：Asia-Pacific

Implementation Start Date：2021-04-01

Implementation End Date：2023-12-31

Project Objectives：At the end of the project, the annual output of certified rice seeds accounted for 11% of the actual demand in South Sulawesi Province.

Executing Agency：

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

Current Progress：

To the end of December 2023, the following activities have been completed:
1. Counseling local farmers in cultivating 650 hectares of seed fields for production of 14,842 metric tons of wet grains.
2. Producing 13,085 metric tons of qualified rice seeds.
3. Cooperating with Indonesian Cereals Research Institute (ICERI), and introduced drone technology (unmanned aerial vehicle, UAV) not only to monitor and identify the rice field conditions, but also to promote pesticide spraying and fertilization.
4. Holding 3 seminars for rice seed producers and 1 results presentation.

5. Co-organizing 3 international seminars with Hasanuddin University and International Rice Research Institute(IRRI).

Project Contact：Ken Hua Chang

Phone：+886228732323 #6045

E-mail：k.h.chang@icdf.org.tw

Mission：Taiwan Technical Mission in the Republic of Indonesia