TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - Agriculture Minister Andi Amran Sulaiman siad that the goal of national agriculture policy is for food sufficiency in 2017.
"We have to be self-sufficient. Our target for next year is to meet rice self-sufficiency. Even more, Indonesia has to be world’s food estate in the next 30 years," said Amran in Balikpapan on Thursday (14/10).
As the first attempt to reach such a goal, he added that The Agriculture Ministry is devoting their attention to attain rice self-sufficiency in Kalimantan.
"If possible, Kalimatan is set to achieve rice self-sufficiency next year. However, the latest deadline is by 2018," He claimed.
The Ministry of Agriculture has provided Kalimantan with funds and various initiatives to East and South Kalimantan to manifest the goal.
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