Minister of Agriculture Anton Apriyantono of Indonesia
Indonesia plans to boost domestic soybean output to 900,000 tonnes this year to reduce dependence on imports as soaring prices have hurt the local food industry, Agriculture Minister Anton Apriyantono said on Tuesday.
Apriyantono said food vulnerability was closely related to poverty.
Indonesia will face a food crisis in 2017 or 20 years from now given the disparity between population growth and the rate at which the country`s farm land area is shrinking, Agriculture Minister Anton Apriyantono said here on Monday.
Apriyantono said Indonesia is expected to produce 2.
BIOFUEL SUBSIDYApriyantono said the government plans to subsidise biofuel products to help the products compete with heavily-subsidised fossil fuels and revive the industry which has been hit by rising prices of palm oil feedstock.
Indonesian Agriculture Minister Anton Apriyantono has said China's two-prong technology and policy approach to maintaining domestic rice stocks had inspired him to introduce new rice production policies, local press reported Wednesday.
Indonesian Minister of Agriculture Anton Apriyantono said that the funds were aimed at conducting bio-security, monitoring and the cleansing of the farms.
In addition, Anton Apriyantono said the government might not need to perform a mass cull, because it is not an effective way of rooting out the avian influenza virus.
Meanwhile on 14th September national Agriculture minister Anton Apriyantono said that hopefully by the end of the year regulations would be in place limiting the extent to which foreign investors could own or control land for palm oil plantations.
Anton Apriyantono said here yesterday.
Indonesian Agriculture Minister Anton Apriyantono said Indonesia would export one million tons of rice if its national rice production target for 2009 was achieved.
Meanwhile minister of Agriculture of Indonesia Anton Apriyantono said on Tuesday (9 March) that the government would review its rice import ban in May after the domestic rice harvest, considering that Indonesia would be producing sufficient rice for its own needs this year.
JAKARTA, Jan 20 Asia Pulse - Agriculture Minister Anton Apriyantono has asked the finance ministry to immediately abolish value added tax on primary commodities as pledged by the government.
Speaking in his keynote address at the opening of the sixth annual meeting of the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in Nusa Dua, Bali, Apriyantono said any moratorium, including that recently called for by Greenpeace, was beyond the control of the Indonesian government.
Agriculture Minister Anton Apriyantono said the country is set place itself in the ranks of major rice suppliers in the world.
Net - Agriculture Minister Anton Apriyantono has brushed aside concerns that recent floods could lead to a rice shortage in Indonesia later this year.
Commenting on the oil palm industry, Apriyantono said he was considering establishing a trust fund to oversee the rejuvenation of government-owned oil palm plantations.
Apriyantono expressed the need for soft loans for building agricultural infrastructure during his meeting with senior officials of IDB.
Despite being branded an endemic country, Anton Apriyantono said his government will carry on with its eradication programme and the 2007 deadline.
JAKARTA (Thomson Financial) - Indonesia can rely on its domestic soybean output, instead of imports, to meet growing local demand by year 2011, Agriculture Minister Anton Apriyantono was quoted by Detik.
Apriyantono said he believes the recent sharp increase in soybean prices should now provide an incentive for farmers to start planting soybeans again.
Indonesias agriculture minister Anton Apriyantono said that on Sunday the first eradication drive would take care of poultry and pigs within a radius of 3 km from where the three victims died in Banten province.
Indonesian Agriculture Minister Anton Apriyantono has said that Indonesia would still retain 60 per cent of its forests, in addition to the 23 million ha already marked out as protected forest.
Minister Anton Apriyantono said Tuesday that China's two-prong technology and policy approach to maintaining domestic rice stocks had inspired him to intensively expand information sharing between researchers, seed producers and farmers in Indonesia, and to introduce new policies to ensure a balance between domestic rice stocks and demand in order to stabilize prices.
Text of report in English by official Chinese news agency Xinhua (New China News Agency) Jakarta, 14 February: Indonesia targeted to control the bird flu virus spread, that has killed 18 out of 26 infected people, in three years, Agriculture Minister Anton Apriyantono said here Tuesday.
Anton Apriyantono said in an interview he had discussed the politically sensitive issue with the president and planned to present it in a cabinet meeting next week, a move which he said was very critical for the country.
Apriyantono said he did not know yet how the land reform programme would take place on the densely populated Java island where most of Indonesias 220 million people live and where the land issue has emerged to be a historically sensitive and politically significant issue.
The head of state further said Agriculture Minister Anton Apriyantono met with officials from a number of European countries some time ago to discuss the quota for Indonesian farm products exported to the continent.
The Agriculture Minister Anton Apriyantono has said that they can not take any risks and that all livestock will be killed on any farms where the virus is found.
Indonesian Agriculture Minister Anton Apriyantono said the government would conduct a feasibility study for the programme, which could help soothe worries about rice supplies in countries such as Malaysia and the Philippines.
But Apriyantono said unmilled rice output was forecast to rise 7 percent in 2008 to 61 million tonnes on better yields and that there were no plans to import rice supplies.