Indonesian Government Targets the Next Three Years of Food Self-Sufficiency

Rice field

Indonesian Government Targets the Next Three Years of Food Self-Sufficiency

TRIBUNNEWS.COM, JAKARTA - In the next two to three years, Indonesia should be self-sufficient in rice, sugar, corn and soybeans, said Vice President Jusuf Kalla. Attainment of self-sufficiency will have an impact on economic growth.

"It can maintain, improve well-being, reduce poverty. Both maintain price stability, and also keep inflation to be too high," said Jusuf Kalla at the Vice President, Central Jakarta, Monday (12/15/2014).

The government needs to provide four things to realize self-sufficiency within the next two years, namely seeds, fertilizers good, affordable, appropriate planting time and improvement of irrigation facilities.

Minister of Agriculture Amran Sulaiman on the same occasion said that the government expects rice production by 73 million tons in 2015. In addition, the government is targeting production of 20 million tons of corn in 2016, and the 2017 soybean self-sufficiency.

In order to realize a good harvest, the government appointed PT Sang Hyang Seri and PT Fertilizer Indonesia to provide good quality seeds to farmers' needs.

The government also plans to improve three million hectares of irrigation tertiary damaged. Annual plan, the government will fix a million acres, so that in three years all tertiary irrigation can be fixed.