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View all search resultsThe next government needs to aim for integrated, coherent policies to regulate the palm oil industry, especially in view of the mainstay commodity's declining production trend and the country's development and energy transition goals.
The greatest contributing factor is the yield gap between farmers on Java and farmers outside Java, so a national program on increasing rice productivity should focus on massive investment in agricultural technology to boost the capacity of farmers outside Java.
As ASEAN sets out to mark a new era through its recently opened negotiations on the DEFA, agritech must be part of the core focus so smallholder farmers can both benefit from and contribute to a sector that is instrumental to the region's economies.
This year's BPS agricultural survey points to a lack of farmer regeneration as well as other factors suggesting a significant decline in future productivity, which experts say could leave the country dependent on imports.
The recently concluded CFS meeting of the FAO has produced policy recommendations that identify the various matters related to ensuring developing countries' access to AI and other technologies toward building food security around the globe.
The EU’s demand that Indonesia implement UPOV 1991 is extremely troubling as UPOV 1991 offers an inflexible legal framework that severely restricts farmers’ rights, especially their right to freely use, save, exchange and sell farm-saved seeds.
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