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Indonesia’s National Food Agency (NFA) is optimistic about a significant increase in maize production in early 2025 following a bumper harvest in February. According to the Central Statistics Agency, maize production in the first quarter of 2025 is projected to increase by 41.38% from the previous year. Based on the KSA data, the BPS forecasts

REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, JAKARTA -- President Prabowo Subianto has set an ambitious target to achieve food self-sufficiency, especially rice commodities, by 2027. The government is optimistic that it can realize this target by relying on the potential of land resources spread from Sabang to Merauke. The Main Secretary of the National Food Agency (Bapanas), Sarwo Edhy, revealed that Indonesia has a total of 191.09 million hectares (ha) of land, with 9.44 million ha being non-swamp wetlands and 31.12 million ha of swamp land. Of the swamp land area, around 12.23 million ha can be used as productive agricultural land. "This means that if we can optimize just 1 million ha of swamp land, the impact will be huge," said Sarwo. According to him, optimizing up to 3 million ha of additional land can meet the food needs of 400-500 million Indonesians. Sarwo added that President Prabowo Subianto has a vision to make Indonesia the world's food barn. "We can become a country that meets the food ...

REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, INDRAMAYU - Minister of Forestry (Menhut) Raja Juli Antoni said that the agroforestry system is currently being developed. This is done by planting upland rice varieties which are targeted to cover up to 1.1 million hectares of land throughout Indonesia to support food self-sufficiency. "We are collaborating with the Ministry of Agriculture (Kementan), so today we are launching the first planting of upland rice planted in agroforestry, which we will later develop in Indonesia to a maximum of 1.1 million hectares," said Raja Juli in Indramayu, West Java, Tuesday (4/2/2025). He explained that the agroforestry system allows the utilization of degraded land (bare), by planting forest trees with food crops such as upland rice and corn. According to him, this step aims to restore the ecological function of the land while increasing food production. "Technically, how many years, we will discuss it at the directorate general level, but there is a potential of 1.1 ...