date:Jul 26, 2013
support scheme and to make way for grain from coming crops.
Indonesia was self-sufficient in rice in the early 1980s, but output gradually declined as farmland was used for housing for a booming population. The agriculture ministry has drafted a 2013-2015 regulation to stop agricultural land, mainly aimed at rice paddies, being converted to industrial or housing use.
Bulog, which can also import beef, corn, sugar and soybeans, is tasked with keeping food affordable by buying and selling stapl