#food security

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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 ...

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'COVID-19 inhaler': scientists prescribe caution, further research

The Ministry of Agriculture recently announced its Veterinary Research Agency had successfully developed an ...

Agriculture Ministry's 'COVID-19 inhaler' draws flack from legislators

Several legislators raised questions on a product developed by the Agriculture Ministry, which claims to provide relief ...

Sugar production projected to reach 540,000 tons in June-August

Sugar production in Indonesia has entered its peak season and is expected to reach 540 thousand tons in June-August, ...

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; ...

Year ender - World to rely more on aquaculture for fish supply By Muhammad Razi Ra

The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations said the world begins to rely on aquaculture for ...

year ender - subsidized kur credit to reach rp120 trillion by year-end by andi abdussalam

In an effort to help small businesses obtain cheap financing, in 2007, the government had launched a subsidized micro ...

Government to cultivate four million hectares of idle lands

Agriculture Minister Andi Amran Sulaiman said that the government would cultivate four million hectares of idle lands ...

Indonesia promotes partnership scheme to offer finance to fishermen

Indonesias government is promoting a partnership scheme to help finance small fishermen at a working group meeting of ...

Biotech/GM crops surge to a new peak of 185.1 million hectares in 2016

- Today, the International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-biotech Applications (ISAAA) released its annual report ...

RI vows to promote developing nations` interests at WTO Summit

Indonesia, the chair of G-33 group of developing nations, has vowed to struggle for the interests of its members at ...

Fertilizer company to optimize CSR

The state-owned fertilizer company PT Pupuk Sriwijaya Indonesia (Pusri) in Palembang, South Sumatra, has continued to ...