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View all search resultsPresident Joko “Jokowi” Widodo said Indonesia needed to import another 1.5 million tonnes of rice to anticipate a dwindling harvest due to the El Niño weather phenomenon, on top of the prevailing 2 million tonnes procured earlier this year.
Production in the world's largest palm oil producer after Indonesia plunged 20 percent during a 2016 El Nino event, but the impact this year has so far not been severe, said the regulator's director-general, Ahmad Parveez Ghulam Kadir.
The Environment and Forestry Ministry estimates that nearly 270,000 hectares of land and forest have been burned so far this year, with West Kalimantan, East Nusa Tenggara, South Kalimantan and East Java among the worst-hit provinces.
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