#food crops

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Food insecurity still haunting Indonesia by otniel tamindael - (d)

Indonesia is still confronted by the challenge of food security for its 234 million population, the fourth largest in ...

Small farmers should be basis of food development

Smallholder`s agriculture and food estates must be synchronized with development of the country`s food resilience so ...

Drought affected 95,391 hectares of rice fields in 2011 : Minister

Drought has affected 95,891 hectares of rice fields in various regions in Indonesia from January to August this year ...

NTT`s villages receive funds from rural agribusiness development program

Some 1,779 villages, or 60 percent of the total 2,966 villages in 20 districts in East Nusa Tenggara (NTT) Province, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Maize production surplus estimated at 2.6 million tons

The Agriculture Ministry has predicted that the country`s maize production surplus in 2011 would reach 2.6 million ...

Minister calls on regional govts to preserve paddy fields

Agriculture Minister Suswono called on all regional leaders to keep productive rice fields in their respective regions ...

Floods affect 62,686 ha of paddy fields since early 2011

The Agriculture Ministry recorded floods affected 62,686 hectares of paddy fields in the January-March 2011 period ...

RI`s economy grows 6.5 pct in q1

The Indonesian economy grew 6.5 percent in the first quarter of 2011 from a year earlier on rising investment, exports ...

Caterpillars spread to 17 locations in C Java

The Central Java agricultural, food crops and horticultural agency said that caterpillars have also spread to 17 ...

Caterpillar invasion reaches Denpasar

After breaking out in several eastern parts of Bali, a caterpillar population explosion is now also happening on the ...