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Taiwan unveils new orchid species for use as chinese medicine

The Council of Agriculture (COA) on Wednesday unveiled a new orchid species for use in traditional Chinese medicine, ...

Bali welcomes Subak as a world cultural heritage

The government and the people of Bali, especially the farmers, have welcomed the decision of the United Nations (PBB) ...

Food security needs serious attention

The Indonesian government needs to pay serious attention to domestic food security amid the soaring global food ...

RI govt urged to create food sovereignty

The Indonesian Farmer Solidarity Association (HKTI) has urged the government to create not only food security but also ...

Govt to provide subsidy for farmers: legislator

The government will provide subsidy for farmers in compensation for fuel oil price hikes next April, a legislator ...

Batu farmers export record number of potatoes to Singapore

Farmers in the East Java provincial town of Batu, working together as the Mitra Arjuna Farmers Association, have for ...

Govt sets base buying price of rice at Rp6,600

President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has signed a decree setting the government`s base purchasing price of rice at ...

Floods inundate 200 ha of rice field, fish ponds

Some 200 hectares of rice field and fish ponds of Sungai Merdeka villagers, Samboja sub-district, Kutai Kartanegara, ...

Lightning kills three C Java people in past two months

Three farmers in Rembang district, Central Java, were killed by lightning while in the field in the period ...

Indonesia must actively help solve global problems : President

President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono said because of the complexity of today`s global problems Indonesia must actively ...

House Commission IV making working visits in four countries

Delegations of the House of Representatives Commission IV are making working visits in the US, Japan, China and India ...

Research key to improving small farmers` welfare

Agriculture experts from Indonesia and Australia will meet in Bogor on Wednesday (Nov.30, 2011) to identify research ...

No change in RI govt`s sugar policy

The government`s plan to import 300 - 500 thousand tons of sugar until early next year indicates that the trade ...

Iraq mass grave discovered: officer

Iraqi security forces found a mass grave containing the bodies of nine men in a town north of Baghdad, an army colonel ...

Gorontalo aspires to become world-class corn producing region

Gorontalo is preparing itself to host a World Maize Conference (WMC) in 2012 which it sees as a forum that will bring ...