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View all search resultsThe island province, long known for its sandy beaches, terraced rice farms and unique temple culture, is still struggling to find a way to ramp up its agriculture industry and move away from its reliance on tourism as the key economic contributor.
For decades, Indonesia has strived to optimize the productivity of its farmers to be able to meet the ever-growing domestic demand. The free meals program now presents a golden opportunity to pursue that ambition at a systemic scale, from farm to table, from nature to the pockets of the poorest.
PT Permodalan Nasional Madani (PNM) held an empowerment event for coffee farmers in the Kintamani region of Bangli regency, Bali. The event, which took place at the Farmers’ Support Center (FSC), was attended by PNM's operational director, Sunar Basuki, and involved collaborations with Coop Coffee Indonesia, the Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) Ministry and the Women’s Empowerment and Child Protection Ministry.
The 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.
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