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Text your say: RI could reduce dependence on imported beef
Unloading: Workers unload live cattle from Australia at the Tanjung Priok Port, North Jakarta
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Unloading: Workers unload live cattle from Australia at the Tanjung Priok Port, North Jakarta. The government has increased the amount of imported beef to meet increasing demand.(JP/Seto Wardhana) (JP/Seto Wardhana)
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span class="inline inline-center">Unloading: Workers unload live cattle from Australia at the Tanjung Priok Port, North Jakarta. The government has increased the amount of imported beef to meet increasing demand.(JP/Seto Wardhana)
Your comment on the ninth economic stimulus package made by the government to stabilize beef supplies and prices by diversifying beef import sources and deregulating logistics:
Who is the Indonesian cattle rancher? A business that brings in cattle and grazes them for a bit and then sends them to the market, or people that actually take the time and energy to develop a business of calf to market?
Xsimaging
Where does the land come from to raise all these cattle? Indonesia is not suited for mass beef production. People should learn they must only eat chicken if they don't want imports.
Testing123456
Cattle do not need as much land as you may think, as long as the land and the grazing is managed properly. Cattle can graze anywhere grass grows. This can include tree-covered orchards and forested areas. Cattle do not eat the roots of the grass when grazing so the grass if allowed by grazing management can recover quickly unlike grazing grasses for sheep or goats that eat the roots, too.
There are a lot of areas where cattle-grazing could take place. The grazing is the easy part. The cattle feed lots for fattening before market would take some space depending on the amount of them and their management is a bit more difficult.
There they need local producers of grains and other feed lot feeds to get cattle ready for market.
XS
Regulating imports is in the interest of vested quarters, not in the interest of consumers.
If the government would not meddle here, the work of the KPK could be reduced.
Taco Huh De Vries
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