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New food policy in pipeline
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Coordinating Economic Minister Darmin Nasution, accompanied by Cabinet Secretary Pramono Anung, talks to journalists on new economic policy after a Cabinet meeting on Thursday. (ANTARA FOTO/Yudhi Mahatma)
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resident Joko "Jokowi" Widodo’s new Cabinet aims to complete a medium-term food policy in the near future given the lack of coherent food policy currently, a senior minister has said.
Coordinating Economic Minister Darmin Nasution said in Jakarta on Thursday that Indonesia needed a medium-term food policy, with regulated imports, before achieving food self-sufficiency by 2019, as targeted by the government.
“We are developing a medium-term policy for food that regulates not only current food prices but also the development of agriculture and farms over the next few years,” Darmin told journalists.
For example, he said, the government plans to hand over cattle imports to farmers, instead of only to lot feeders.
“However, we want the farmers to team up to breed cattle on a large scale. If possible, a group of five farmers should breed up to 70 cattle,“ Darmin said. (vny/dan)
