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View all search resultsLocal soybean farmers have produced just 8 percent of national demand over the past five years, according to a senior food official, who also said the government was cooking up a variety of strategies, including a targeted subsidy, to boost output to accelerate its self-sufficiency agenda.
Since the program’s launch in July last year, President Prabowo Subianto’s administration has added multiple tasks and broadened the cooperatives’ scope of work from grocery stores to managing community oil wells.
Buyers in Indonesia, the world's second-largest wheat importer, last week signed deals to purchase at least 150,000 tonnes of new-crop Black Sea wheat for July shipment, while Thai millers booked 125,000 tonnes of US wheat, two Singapore-based traders said.
With the dry season forecast to arrive early and last longer due to a potential shift to El Niño, the government is readying several agricultural measures, including AWD to maintain optimal rice production.
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