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Minister calls for greenhouse gas emission reduction to overcome drought

Environment Minister Gusti Muhammad Hatta said reducing greenhouse gas emissions is one of the long-term efforts to ...

Farmers urged to plant secondary crops to terminate pest attacks

Farmers in three sub districts, in Batang, Central Java, are called on to plant secondary crops in order to terminate ...

Planthoppers attack farmers` crops in Central Java

Thousands of hectares of paddy fields are being attacked by brown planthoppers in Central Java, one of the food crop ...

Long-awaited decree on deforestation moratorium draws mixed responses from NGOs

President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono finally signed the long-awaited Presidential Instruction on deforestation ...

Four kinds of exceptions to apply in forest clearing moratorium

The government is to make four kinds of exceptions in the implementation of Presidential Instruction No. 10/2011 on ...

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 ...

Ministry warns of possible brown planthopper attacks

The Agricultural Research and Development Center (Balitbangtan) of the Ministry of Agriculture has warned farmers of ...

Flash flood hits Jepara

A flash flood triggered by heavy rains swept through a number of villages in three subdistricts in Jepara district, ...

Brisk trade for eels and snails in North Korea

Not everyone in reclusive North Korea is finding life tough. Take the mud snail and eel farmers --they are doing a ...

Pekalongan`s floods displace 20 families

Flash floods that hit four villages in Kedungwuni subdistrict, Pekalongan district, Central Java, on Sunday, have ...