#staple food

Collection of staple food news, found 359 news.

People encouraged to consume tubers

Various efforts have been made to encourage Indonesian people to consume tubers instead of rice. Tubers have not ...

110 state firms attend coordination meeting with president

Officials from 110 state-owned companies attended a coordination meeting with State-owned Enterprise Minister Dahlan ...

Bulog asked to buy rice at commercial price

State-owned logistics agency Bulog has been asked by the government to buy farmers` unhusked rice at a commercial ...

Bishops discuss food sovereignty program

Bishops representing all the churches of Nusa Tenggara region are planning to set up a general program for the ...

Authority of Bulog should be restored

Authority of State Logistics Agency (Bulog) should quickly be restored as the staple food controller on account of ...

Govt to create rice fields amid food scarcity threat

The government plans to create rice fields on 100 thousand hectares of land this year in anticipation of the threat of ...

Government`s compensation for 2012 fuel hike plan

The government`s plan to raise fuel prices in April has also increased people`s concerns about the rising costs of ...

Government`s fuel price hike plan triggers high inflation

The government`s plan to raise the national fuel price could trigger an increase in local inflation in Jember ...

Depok city implements `one day no rice` policy

Depok Mayor Nur Mahmudi Ismail said he had adopted a "One Day No Rice" policy to contribute to the efforts to ...

Demand for wheat flour increases by six percent

Demand for wheat flour would increase in Indonesia by six per cent from that last year, which was 4.7 million tonnes, ...

RI's govt to invest Rp9 trillion to create new rice fields

The government plans to invest Rp9 trillion to create new rice fields in East Kalimantan to increase production as of ...

RI should develop secondary-crop-based agro-industries : expert

As rice supply will in the future tend to become increasingly vulnerable to disruptions, Indonesia should seize any ...

Restore soil fertility to increase food production

Indonesia is striving to further increase food production and other agricultural commodities to ensure the attainment ...

RI's govt mulling rice imports from India

The government is considering importing 500 thousand tons of rice from India following weeks of flooding in Thailand, ...

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 ...