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Food diversification for national food security

Rice is the main food for most Indonesians and a key commodity whose production is pursued to be increased by the ...

Superior seeds can boost rice output, cut imports: minister

Coordinating Minister for Food Affairs, Zulkifli Hasan, has expressed the belief that the use of superior-grade rice ...

Bulog distributes 65 percent of rice aid to Papua

State-run logistics company PT Bulog has distributed 425.7 million kilograms of rice to 42 districts/cities in six ...

Bapanas to raise rice reserves to two mln tons by yr-end

Indonesia's National Food Agency (Bapanas) is targeting to increase government rice reserves to two million tons ...

Indonesia's Bulog studies acquisition of Cambodian rice producers

Indonesia's state food logistics company, Bulog, is conducting an in-depth study on a plan to acquire several rice ...

FAO bestows highest award in food sector on Jokowi

President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) received the highest award in the food sector, the Agricola Medal, from the Food and ...

Gov't optimistic of Indonesia soon achieving rice self-sufficiency

Deputy Minister of Agriculture Sudaryono expressed optimism that the national agriculture's continually increasing ...

Planting area expansion to help anticipate food crisis: govt

Indonesia's Agriculture Minister Andi Amran Sulaiman underscored on Monday that the planting area expansion (PAT) ...

Water pumping program floats hopes of food security

Optimism is currently rife among farmers in Krendowahono village in Gondangrejo sub-district, Karanganyar district, ...

Indonesia's Jan-May rice import reaches 2.2 million tons

The National Food Agency (Bapanas) stated that the government completed 2.2 million tons of rice imports between ...

President assures only quality rice disbursed as social assistance

President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) made assurance that the government would only distribute premium-quality rice as social ...

President Jokowi inaugurates Ameroro Dam in Konawe

President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) officiated the Ameroro Dam in Konawe District, Southeast Sulawesi Province, which ...

Rice imports only cover below five pct of nation's total needs: Jokowi

President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) stated that the realization of rice imports through State Logistics Agency ...

Minister seeks to boost E Java farm output to cut imports

Agriculture Minister Andi Amran Sulaiman said that his ministry is continuing to make efforts to increase planting ...

 Government continues to secure rice reserves: minister

State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs) Minister Erick Thohir affirmed that the government is continuing to make efforts to ...