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Ministry to use budget allocation to increase rice production

Agriculture Minister Siswono said he would use the 2012 budget allocation totaling Rp17.8 trillion for his ministry ...

Pakistan floods make 60.000 homeless:officials

Devastating rains have triggered floods in southern Pakistan, affecting at least 700,000 people and forcing 60,000 ...

Food Distribution Can Strengthen Nutrition Safety Net

The government is expected to strengthen the nutrition safety net through strong foods distribution to low-income ...

BPS : Q2 economic growth 6.43 pct

Head of the Central Kalimantan Board of Statistics (BPS) Panusunan Siregar said according to constant prices of gross ...

UN to start airlifting food to Somalia

The UN World Food Programme was set on Tuesday to start airlifting food to Somalia, Ethiopia and Kenya after an ...

Aceh farmers study agriculture technology in Thailand

Aceh`s provincial Food Crops Affairs Office has sent six farmers to Thailand to learn agricultural technology at the ...

S Sulawesi`s cocoa bean exports wown 34 pct

South Sulawesi`s cocoa bean exports through Makassar`s Soekarno-Hatta Seaport, in the January-June 2011 period fell ...

Govt preparing NTT to become Indonesia`s cotton belt

The Indonesian government is currently preparing East Nusa Tenggara (NTT) to become an Indonesian cotton belt. ...

Minister to lay SPI corner stone in Wakatobi

Fisheries Minister Fadel Muhammad will lay the first corner stone of the Wakatobi International Fishery School on July ...

Rice stocks enough to face fasting month

The government has assured that rice stocks in the face of the fasting month next August were enough with the ...

News Focus: PPP has objective political attitude in many ways

Seen as a moderate Islamic party, the United Development Party (PPP) has been showing an objective political attitude ...

PPP To Increase Its Members By 12 Million

The United Development Party (PPP) has set itself a target to increase around 12 million members in the next three ...

RI`s rice production estimated to rise 2.4 pct

Indonesia`s rice production is estimated to rise by 2.4 percent this year, according to the National Statistics Agency ...

Coffee helping to conserve Aceh`s environment

On a sunny afternoon at a coffee shop in Banda Aceh city, Aceh province, four men were engrossed in a lively ...

China floods kill 44 in drought-hit provinces

Torrential rain in two drought-stricken central China provinces triggered landslides and brought down houses, killing ...