#food crisis

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Building food estate critical to national defense: Dahnil

A food estate planned in Central Kalimantan will serve as a center for agricultural and strategic logistical reserves, ...

Defense minister also tasked with enhancing food resilience: Jokowi

President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) has justified his decision to task Defense Minister Prabowo Subianto with leading the ...

Indonesian farmers encouraged to develop integrated farming

The Indonesian Ministry of Agriculture encourages farmers to implement an integrated farming method to enable them to ...

Farmers' incomes to receive boost from food-estate program: official

Farmers from Pulang Pisau District in Central Kalimantan Province would be able to capitalize on the Indonesian ...

NLPSF researcher cautiously supports Indonesia's food-estate program

A senior researcher of the Palangka Raya University's Natural Laboratory of Peat Swamp Forest (NLPSF) suggested ...

Govt should preemptively tackle climate change impacts on rice yield

A researcher urged Indonesia’s government to take preventive measures against the impact of climate change on the ...

Indonesia challenged to achieve its mandated food security: economist

Indonesia has had the 2012 Food Law that mandates the country to possess a roadmap to achieve an overall food security; ...

Minister encourages industries to produce locally processed foods

Indonesia's Agriculture Minister Syahrul Yasin Limpo has encouraged domestic industries to develop and diversify ...

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Indonesia braces for extreme dry season amid COVID-19

As it battles the coronavirus pandemic, Indonesia, which is currently entering the dry season, is bracing for a ...

Rice plantation sooner as precaution against food crisis amid pandemic

The Agriculture Ministry is implementing a program called the Paddy Planting Acceleration Movement in several regions ...

Ensuring water availability important for realizing food resilience

Yanto Ph.D, a hydrological and water resources expert at the Jenderal Soedirman University, highlighted the criticality ...

APEC urged to safeguard food security through open trade policies

Member economies of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) have been advised, in a new policy brief, to adopt an ...

President upbeat about social assistance boosting purchasing power

President Joko Widodo is optimistic that the government's social assistance programs would increase the ...

COVID-19 task force encourages people to fully tap food diversity

Expert team of the Task Force for the Acceleration of COVID-19 Handling has encouraged Indonesians to explore the ...

President cautions of food crop sub-sector contracting in Q1 2020

President Joko Widodo expressed concern over the contraction in several sub-sectors, including food crops, thereby ...