#food diversification

Collection of food diversification news, found 121 news.

Food assistance and anti-inflation measures

The Indonesian government has been providing food assistance since 2023 to support low-income people and curb ...

Trade Minister confirms sufficient rice stocks ahead of Ramadan

Indonesia is still storing sufficient stocks of various basic commodities, including rice, to meet the needs of the ...

Food stocks sufficient ahead of Ramadan: Bapanas

National food stock availability is still sufficient ahead of Ramadan, which will fall in March this year, head of the ...

Importance of reviewing strategic food commodities

The government has listed strategic food commodities in Presidential Decree No. 66 of 2021. In the decree, strategic ...

Bapanas optimizing use of millets as alternative food source

The National Food Agency (Bapanas) is developing small-grained cereals called millet as an alternative source of ...

BPOM monitors sorghum development to achieve food security

The Food and Drug Supervisory Agency (BPOM) will monitor efforts to develop sorghum to achieve national food security ...

Deep dive into the government's scheme to handle food crisis

The food crisis is currently threatening the world after the COVID-19 pandemic, with global leaders having starting to ...

Home minister promotes food diversification to cut reliance on rice

Minister of Home Affairs Tito Karnavian has been consuming corn and sweet potatoes as alternative staple foods to ...

Bapanas points on rice's price ceiling for policy formulation

Head of the National Food Agency (Bapanas), Arief Prasetyo Adi, emphasized that the retail price ceiling (HET) of rice ...

El Nino: President stresses securing water supply

President Joko Widodo highlighted the importance of maintaining the water supply for sustaining national food security ...

Governor releases rice aid distribution to stabilize prices

West Sumatra Governor Mahyeldi released the distribution of rice assistance as an effort to stabilize increasing food ...

Widodo warns of food price rise as 22 countries restrict exports

Twenty-two countries have so far restricted food exports, President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) said on Friday and warned that ...

Bulog distributes rice aid to Balikpapan residents

President director of State Logistics Agency (Bulog), Budi Waseso, handed over rice assistance for 10,844 beneficiary ...

Balancing rice security, food diversification as prices boil

The Indonesian government is not new to formulating policies related to rice imports and conducting market ...

Govt prepares moves to mitigate risk of decreasing food production

The government has prepared several moves to mitigate the risk of declining food production due to the El Nino ...