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Government to add 1,000 farmers shops in Greater Jakarta
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Customers queue to buy red chili and shallots at farmers prices of Rp 10,000 (75 US Cents) per kg and Rp 14,500 per kg, respectively, at a farmers shop (Toko Tani/TTI) in Pasar Minggu, South Jakarta, on Monday. Toko Tani sells products directly from main distributors or farmers to keep prices low. (JP/Stefani Ribka)
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n a bid to lower staple food prices and control inflation, the Agriculture Ministry plans to add another 1,000 Indonesian Farmers Shops (TTI) by March to the existing 1,316 shops across the archipelago today.
“The 1,000 new shops will be focused in Greater Jakarta as the main and busiest city [while those in other cities will be discussed later],” said Minister Amran Sulaiman during the first delivery of staple food stocks to 22 TTI in Jakarta on Monday.
The shops under the program are directly managed by producers of staple foods (rice, shallots, garlic, chili, sugar, beef, buffalo meat, chicken, eggs and vegetable oil) or staple traders who source the products directly from farmers’ groups cooperating with the ministry.
The shops were launched last year in an attempt to cut the nation’s stubbornly lengthy distribution chain.
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As of January, there were 1,316 TTI, selling mainly rice. This year, the government has identified another 1,000 people who will be facilitated to set up TTI to sell not only rice but also other staple foods in Greater Jakarta.
The addresses of the TTI in Greater Jakarta can be accessed on the ministry’s website.
As the products go directly from farmers to main distributor to the shops, prices are below the Trade Ministry’s price ceiling. Beef, for example, is tagged at a maximum of Rp 80,000 (US$5.9), sugar Rp 12,500 per kg, vegetable oil Rp 12,000 per kg, garlic Rp 8,500 per kg, shallots Rp 14,500 and red chili Rp 10,000 per kg.
TTI is one of government’s programs aimed at helping it reach its inflation goal of 4 percent, plus/minus 1 percent this year. (bbn)
