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Syngenta’s CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility) programmed Syngenta Connection. The first program was done in 2010 in India and organized by Syngenta Singapore. The second one, which was also organized by Syngenta Singapore, was done in Indonesia in Malang city from 5 to 14th July 2011. Participant of the program were all students, they were 16 from Indonesia and 10 from Australia. The purposes of the program were to create any connection between Indonesia-Australia, Syngenta and farmers.
Participants were divided into 5 groups. Each group will go to different places in Malang and Batu for having farmer meeting. The meeting was done in Kepanjen, Dau, Batu, Karang Ploso and Bululawang. In farmer meeting, we had to deliver some points about pesticide: buying, transporting, storing and disposing. When buying we have to ask the dealer about the pesticide we need, make sure we buy the right pesticide, check the label and seal, and doubt for the cheaper one compared to the common price with the similar product, because it is suspected to be the false pesticide. When transporting pesticide form shop to home, you should separate the pesticide form other things, store is in different place. Make sure it is safe enough so that people will not play with it, it’s better to have a special box with lock for transporting. And when storing it at home, own a special place (better to have a special room) for storage pesticide and other farming stuff. Make sure it’s impossible for children to reach the place. And the important one is when you dispose the pesticide bottle: damage it before you burry it or just burn it! Make sure it’s clean enough. Even we need to wash it with water for three times to make sure no pesticide remains in the bottle.
Each group had three farmer meetings. The farmers used to being in farm in the morning, so that some groups could not have their meeting in the morning but in the evening or at night. We did some discussion in farmer meeting. Some questions were probably out of topic, but we could not refuse, that was a non-formal farmer meeting, we could not say ‘sorry, your question was not what we were talking, so we should not talk about it’. Fortunately we were assisted by Syngenta staff, so that he would answer it for some difficult questions.
After having the meeting, we guided them into the building boxes games. The farmers are divided into two groups then they would compete for building the storage box. After all, we gave every farmer a box, T-shirt, and mango or orange small plant. In the next day, we went to the farmer’s home one by one to check if they had already built it, put it in the right place and use it for pesticide, not for other use such as book storage or medicines storage. This is good, that Syngenta not only deliver the information but they also make sure their program running well and the farmer do their suggestion.
In the last day, we had a social work by painting the kindergarten school … so unforgettable!
That was a priceless experience! We worked together with Australian students, had very nice sharing and made real friendship. Well, we were really connected.
Thank you Syngenta.
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