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Time for ASEAN Collaboration in Rice Supply

- Over 90% of the world's rice is produced and consumed in the Asia-Pacific region where more than three billion people ...

Govt to set up food agency to achieve food resilience

Indonesia, an agriculture-based country with a population over 237. 6 million and vast tracts of unused land outside ...

Indonesia develops courtyard crops as local food source

In anticipation of a national or global food crisis, the Indonesian government has developed the ability to supply ...

Indonesia expected to anticipate global food crisis

Indonesia and other developing countries in the world are expected to anticipate the global food crisis as early as ...

President Yudhoyono to visit Mongolia

President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono is scheduled to make an official visit to Mongolia from September 5 to 7, an ...

Indonesia`s fruit consumption below FAO`s standard

The agriculture ministry said Indonesia`s consumption of fruits and vegetable is still below the standard set by the ...

Collaboration key to innovation: minister

Minister of Research and Technology Gusti Muhammad Hatta said collaboration among academics, the business world, the ...

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon pledges full support to Qatar for establishing the Global Dry Land

-     -- Panel of global leaders gather in Qatar National Pavilion at Rio+20 UN Conference on ...

Indonesia has many experts in science and technology: minister

Indonesia has many competent experts who have made products of science and technology in various fields to support the ...

CIFOR names Peter Holmgren new director general

The Bogor-based CIFOR (Center for International Forestry Research) has named Dr Peter Holmgren as its new director ...

Two UN workers, four Shiites killed in Pakistan: police

Gunmen separately killed four Shiite Muslims and two local UN employees Thursday in Baluchistan, a Pakistani province ...

Govt to create rice fields amid food scarcity threat

The government plans to create rice fields on 100 thousand hectares of land this year in anticipation of the threat of ...

Indonesian-Austrian scientists meet in earth resilience symposium

Association of Indonesian Youngster and Student in Austria in cooperation with Association of Indonesian International ...

S. Korea to help stem FMD outbreak in Asian nations

South Korea will spend US$2.61 million in the next four years to help fight foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) in Southeast ...

House to revise food law

The House of Representatives (DPR) is planning to revise Law No. 7 of 1996 on Food on the ground it is no longer ...