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– Representatives of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) for Indonesia and Timor Leste Stephen Rudgard appreciate the progress and success of the agricultural sector in Indonesia and alleviate poverty in rural areas.
The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) is under the auspices of the United Nations (UN).
FAO based in Rome, Italy, aims to raise the level of nutrition and standard of living; increase the production, processing, marketing and distribution of food and agricultural products; promote rural development; Stephen said he was proud to meet and interact with Indonesia's Minister of Agriculture, Andi Amran Sulaiman, who encouraged the Indonesian agricultural industry to realize a number of achievements in terms of food exports and agricultural technology development.
"I am proud and happy to meet and discuss with the Minister of Agriculture to discuss the priority of future programs between FAO and Kementan," said Stephen at the Ministry of Agriculture. Agriculture Tuesday (3/7/2018). Amran Sulaiman “/> Doc. Humas Kementan Minister of Agriculture Andi Amran Sulaiman
"Indonesia is like a hometown because it spent its childhood in Indonesia.It's my return in Indonesia And now I'm back to working together to develop agriculture, petrified farmers in Indonesia, "added Stephen.
In the near future, Stephen said that he will be inviting FAO Director-General, José Graziano Da Silva, to Indonesia to see the progress of Indonesian agriculture in order to increase cooperation to increase the production and welfare of farmers. Even by increasing the volume of Indonesian food exports to various countries.
"His coming later to see first-hand the progress of Indonesian agriculture.Because many achievements greatly increase the production and export volume.Agricultural policy has also managed to reduce the poverty in rural areas, "he said.
KOMPAS.com/KIKI ANDI PATI One of the cocoa farmers in Lalombaa village, Kolaka district, cleans his plants. Amran said that in the near future the government will invite the FAO to visit South Sulawesi, especially see the development of cocoa directly and meet the farmers to provide education.
The Role of FAO in Assisting Indonesian Farmers
"We hope our cocoa production will be larger, 600 tons, we are aiming for more than a million tons", he said.
Indonesia-Iran Strategic Cooperation
Doc. In addition to FAO, Amran also received visits from the Iranian ambbadador to Indonesia, Timor Leste and ASEAN Valoillah Mohammadi
Amran invited Iran to invest and cooperate in the export of imported food products.
"I invite you to invest in Indonesia, we are talking about how to share their capital, they also offer wheat at competitive prices compared to Australia while we offer wheat, sugar management , corn and water ".
Ambbadador Valoillah Mohammadi explains that cooperation in agriculture with Indonesia is important and very strategic
KOMPAS.com / KURNIASIH BUDI Corn Garden in Sumbawa, West Nusa Tenggara The reason, Indonesia has a variety of food products.
"We have a large wheat industry, Indonesia also has a diversified commodity, so it will require good cooperation," he said.
The Iranian ambbadador also promised to encourage Iranian entrepreneurs to invest in Indonesia.
The Ministry of Agriculture published Sumbawa corn exports to Sumbawa Besar, NTB, Tuesday (20/3/2018) “/> KOMPAS.com/ KURNIASIH BUDI Ministry of Agriculture Agriculture published Sumbawa corn exports to Sumbawa Besar, NTB, Tuesday (20/3/2018)
Based on BPS data, quantitatively agricultural performance can be seen from the 2017 Rp 1.344 production value in 2018, the population of 265 million inhabitants, an increase of 12.8 million compared to 2014, requires the addition of 1.7 million additional tons of rice from its own production.
It can be seen more detail that it still imported 3.5 million tons of food for corn. However, in 2017, it is not imported and even 2018 exports maize.
"So still imported shallots, since 2016 is not imported and even since 2017 has been exported.Since, the import of fresh chili, since 2016, is self-sufficient," said Amran [19659028] The Ministry of Agriculture provides 50 chickens for every poor household in the Bondowoso district, East Java, Tuesday (22/05/2018) .The aid is linked to the Poverty Surgery Program, Prosperous People to Reduce Poverty. “/> KOMPAS.com/ KURNIASIH BUDI The Ministry of Agriculture provides 50 chickens for every poor household in the district of Bondowoso, East Java, Tuesday (22/5) / 2018 The aid is linked to the program of Poverty Surgery, Prosperous People to reduce poverty.
