The Dates of Aceh's Harvest Gardens

The date palms are identical to desert plants throughout Arabia. However, Mahdi planted it in Aceh and ready to harvest in two months. Let's see the garden.

This plantation is located in the Barbate Valley in Blang Bintang area, Aceh Besar, Aceh. Mahdi pioneered the date palm plantation there.
The date palms are identical to desert plants throughout Arabia. However, Mahdi planted it in Aceh and ready to harvest in two months. Let's see the garden.

Former Head of Bank Indonesia (BI) in Pekanbaru was originally started gardening in 2015 ago to clean up 20 hectares of state-owned land dead.

The land is barren and arid. Cleaning was done using heavy equipment. After the garden, Mahdi imports palm trees from England to be planted there.

There are several types of dates that he planted but the majority of Barhee types.

Mahdi bought date palms worth Rp 700 thousand per trunk. The palm trees there are planted with a distance of between eight to 10 meters

Treatment process is not much different from other plants that use organic fertilizer. To save the cost of fertilizer, Mahdi outsmarts it by keeping dozens of sheep discharged on the spot every day.

Dates can still be fruitful when planted in Indonesia. Condition, the seed must be female and has a date palm tree as a pollinator. Usually, within three years the dates are already beginning to bear fruit.

Mahdi is now not alone open the date palms there. He and 78 others have established the Dairy Farmers Cooperative of the Barbate Valley. They have land with a total area of 320 hectares. But now only land owned by Mahdi and Sukry Syafii (42) who has planted date palms.