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MERAWANG – Student Community Service-Community Empowerment Learning (KKN-PPM) of Universitas Gadjah Mada (UGM) Yogyakarta and farmers in the Village of Kimak planted rice in the rice fields of Kimak Village, Merawang District, Bangka Regency, Sunday morning (07/29/2018).
Head of Agriculture Office of Bangka Regency, Ir. Kemas Arfani Rahman who represented the Bangka Regent Tarmizi during his speech said that indeed changing the cultural behavior of farming rice fields in Bangka was quite difficult, different from other regions. However, the Bangka Regency Government has always been trying since 2016, where rice fields covering an area of 2200 hectares have been printed, where the results have been seen in 2017. If previously the availability of rice in Bangka was only 7 percent, it has now risen to 23 percent.