The goal was to turn one million hectares of unproductive and sparsely populated peat swamp forest into rice paddies in an effort to alleviate Indonesia's ...

Despite the project's reliance on smallholder farmers, the Mega Rice Project was foremost a failed commercial scheme. Government planners had vastly ...

2020年11月10日 · The proposal is to grow rice on 900,000 hectares of wetland, mostly peatland on the abandoned Mega Rice Project area in Central Kalimantan. It ...

2011年4月29日 · LOBET: The consequences of the Mega Rice Project reach deep within lands claimed by Borneo's original Dayak people. For three thousand years ...

Our research activities focus on an intensively fire-affected region in south Central Kalimantan known as the Ex-Mega Rice Project (Ex-MRP).

In the 1990's the Indonesian Government decided to develop one million of hectares of peatlands for agriculture in Central Kalimantan. The construction of ...

2015年5月27日 · The Mega rice project violates government´s own regulationsEstablished in 1995 by Presidential decree in order to restore the country´s ...

The method was used to create a canal blocking in several locations which was expected to increase water table level and to repair degraded peatland ecosystems.

The Mega Rice Project MRP) was established by Presidential. Decree No. 82/1995, following Presidential Decree. No.32/1990, which allocated peat of thickness ...

2019年1月3日 · In 1997 and 1998, the Indonesian government's Mega Rice Project to use the Central Kalimantan province's peat swamps for intensive, ...