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Jokowi targets food sustainability within 4 years
Indonesiaâs new president Joko Widodo said on Monday that he wanted the Southeast Asian nation to be self-sufficient in food staples sugar, rice and corn within four years, according to Reuters
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ndonesia's new president Joko Widodo said on Monday that he wanted the Southeast Asian nation to be self-sufficient in food staples sugar, rice and corn within four years, according to Reuters.
Widodo took over as president of the world's third-largest democracy on Monday with supporters' hopes high but pressing economic problems and skeptical rivals set to test the former furniture businessman.
'Looking forward, we should be working hard to raise the production of our agriculture products so that in three years we can be self sufficient in several commodities,' Widodo said in a televised teleconference with farmers, doctors, teachers and students across the archipelago.
'This is not an easy target but I'm confident with hard work we can achieve our proclaimed target in three to four years.'
Widodo's predecessor, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, introduced self-sufficiency targets in 2009 after food prices soared, but many have not been met partly due to red tape and corruption scandals over import quotas that caused shortages for food such as beef.
