Minister of Agriculture: Indonesia has the potential to import up to 5 million tons of rice in 2024

Reporter: Ratih Waseso | Editor: Tendi Mahadi KONTAN.CO.ID - JAKARTA. Minister of Agriculture (Mentan) Amran Sulaiman said that El Nino caused a decrease in food production. Due to El Nino this year, Indonesia decided to import 3.5 million tons of rice. Amran estimates that rice imports could even reach 5 million tons in 2024. "This year, Indonesia has decided to import 3.5 million tons of rice and has the opportunity to reach 5 million tons in 2024. For this reason, special efforts need to be made immediately to accelerate the increase in food production, to meet people's food needs," said Amran at the Joint Working Meeting of Commission IV DPR RI , Monday (13/11). It is known that this year the government assigned Bulog to import with a quota of 2 million tons. Then this year's import quota was increased by another 1.5 million tons. So the total import quota assigned to Bulog is 3.5 million tons. It is recorded that national rice production for the 2022-2023 period will ...