Agrinas Pangan Nusantara Signs MoU With Blora Regency for IoT-Based Agricultural Modernization Across Tens of Thousands of Hectares
The MoU signed 6 November covers mechanization with digitalization and IoT on farm equipment, farmer institutional strengthening, and a grain processing plant with dryers and large silos; technical agreements are still being finalized.
PT Agrinas Pangan Nusantara, the food-security entity formed on presidential direction and staffed with military officers under the national food security coordination structure, has signed a memorandum of understanding with the Blora regency administration for agricultural modernization. The agreement, signed 6 November, covers tens of thousands of hectares and rests on three pillars: mechanization of farm equipment combined with digitalization and IoT, strengthening farmer institutions, and building a grain processing plant with dryers and large silos modeled on bulk grain storage.
The program targets rice self-sufficiency for Blora starting 2027. The company notes the project remains at the permitting stage and that technical cooperation agreements are not yet final.
The significance is the design approach: a new-generation food estate that plans digitalization and monitoring into the facilities from the start rather than retrofitting them afterward. Processing plants, dryers and silos of this scale require stock monitoring, intake documentation and traceability from the day they open. Procurement for these systems has not begun, and with permits still in process, technology spending is realistically a 2027 agenda, dependent on how the technical agreements and funding structure settle.