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View all search resultsThe output of rice, the country’s major staple food for instance, dropped to 30.34 million tonnes last year from 31.31 million tonnes in 2019, BPS data show. Similarly, farmland has also been shrinking over the past years.
The West Nusa Tenggara administration has set a target to harvest 2.5 million metric tons of corn this year, in line with the target set by the Agriculture Ministry, which has called for an expansion of 400,000 hectares of cornfields in the province.
Agriculture Minister Amran Sulaiman has claimed the development of modern agriculture techniques and human resources, the two main priorities in Indonesia’s agriculture program, have managed to boost the country’s agriculture production during President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo’s first two years in office.
The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Indonesia is piloting the development of conservation agriculture in East Nusa Tenggara (NTT) and West Nusa Tenggara (NTB), two eastern Indonesian provinces known for low rainfall.
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