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Rattan export ban makes its farmers miserable

The ban on the export of raw and semi processed rattan materials has made rattan farmers and entrepreneurs in ...

Farmers use firecracker to repel pest birds

Farmers of Indramayu District in West Java have unique method to repel pest bird from their fields towards the harvest ...

GEPI hopes number of Indonesian female entrepreneurs up

Global Entrepreneurship Program Indonesia (GEPI) has channeled US$30,000 in fund to Wangsa Jelita Entrepreneurs group ...

World Cocoa Foundation Announces $3 Million in Globe-spanning Support for Cocoa Sustainability

- The World Cocoa Foundation (WCF) announced today $3 million in new support for cocoa improvement projects in Africa, ...

IFC Helps Indonesian Women Coffee Farmers Improve Productivity and Family Income

IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, and PT Indo CafCo, a subsidiary of global coffee trader ECOM Agroindustrial ...

Hundreds of disease-stricken Papuan people badly need medical aid

Hundreds of people in three villages of Kwoor district, West Papua, reportedly stricken by diseases and malnutration ...

Agriculture Minister warns of food product cartel

Agriculture Minister Suswono has warned of food and horticultural product cartel, citing their unfairly high prices in ...

President Yudhoyono talks about his retirement plans

What would President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono do after he is no longer a president?. He has not made any decision ...

RI does not need to import rice in 2014

Chief Economic Minister Hatta Rajasa said that Indonesia would not need to import rice in 2014 because the government ...

Bulog determined not to import rice this year

The state logistics agency (Bulog) is determined not to import rice this year if the unhulled rice production target ...

APEC SOM closed with establishment of connectivity framework

APEC delegates closed their Senior Officials` Meeting here on Thursday after they agreed to establish a connectivity ...

Farmers demand compensation for their narcotics plants

Farmers in Cisarua, in the mountain resort of Puncak, Bogor, said they would destroy their chata edulis plants,locally ...

Floods kill three in Bekasi

The floods that hit Bekasi district, West Java province, on January 18-19 have killed three people, according to a ...

Shock and sadness as Irish minister found dead

The Irish political world was in shock Saturday after a member of Prime Minister Enda Kenny`s government was found ...

Indonesia hopes to no longer import rice from 2013

Indonesia hopes it will no longer import rice from abroad such as Thailand and Vietnam from 2013. State ...