Bogor Agricultural University sent 871 Students for their Professional Field Work (KKP)

Bogor Agricultural University sent  871 Students for their  Professional Field Work (KKP) to some areas, namely, West Java, Central Java, South Kalimantan and Bengkulu.
 
This was stated in the opening remarks  which concurently as the First Lecture of  Professional Field Work of Bogor Agricultural University 2012 on " Pengembangan Pertanian Berkelanjutan Berbasis Sumberdaya Lokal (Development of Local Resource-based Sustainable Agriculture), on 31 March 2012,  in Dramaga campus, Bogor.
 
Those 871 students are from the Faculty of Agriculture (355), Faculty of Economic Management (226), Faculty of Animal Husbandry (5), and the Faculty of Human Ecology (285). The Professional Field Work was officially opened by Rector, Prof. Dr. Ir. Herry Suhardiyanto, M.Sc., who concurently delivered the first lecture for the participants. 
 
"It was an important moment, as it has been implemented by the University on 60-70s. In this period the most extraordinary thing happened. At such period, similar current activities was implemented by the students  in 3 villages, one of which was in Karawang,  the noted village to be the birthplace of “Panca Usaha tani”, bywhich the green revolution emereged, so that in 1984 Indonesia managed to achieve rice self-sufficiency, "said the Rector of Bogor Agricultural University. (Wied).