Indonesia: South Sulawesi provincial government committed to working on sago

TABLOIDSINARTANI.COM, Makassar---Sago is now an alternative food amid the threat of a food crisis. In Indonesia, there are 11 provinces which are national centers of sago production. Riau, Papua, Maluku and South Sulawesi are the provinces with the largest contribution to sago production reaching 341 thousand tons/year. Currently, there are 5.5 million ha of potential national sago area. There are about 94 percent or 5.2 million ha in Papua and West Papua. Meanwhile, the utilized area/cultivated area is only around 3.5 percent or around 200,850 thousand ha. Director General of Plantations, Andi Nur Alam Syah said, South Sulawesi is one of the national sago center provinces with an area of 3,700 ha with production reaching 3,182 tons/year. Luwu and North Luwu regencies are centers of sago production in South Sulawesi. "We collaborate with Unhas to develop sago processing in South Sulawesi so that it becomes a national center in the future," said Andi Nur during the Cheap Food ...