Leveraging sugar production in Indonesia, this is the government's strategy

Published 2023년 5월 13일

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The Ministry of Agriculture in Indonesia is working towards achieving self-sufficiency in sugar consumption by 2028. This is being achieved through strategies such as identifying new land for sugar cane planting, revitalizing sugar factories, and improving partnerships between sugar mills and farmers. The Ministry is also exploring the development of non-cane sugar from stevia and palm sugar. In 2022, Indonesia produced 2.45 million tonnes of sugar, a increase from the previous year. There are currently 59 active sugar factories in the country.

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TABLOIDSINARTANI.COM, Sleman---To achieve self-sufficiency in sugar consumption in 2028, the Ministry of Agriculture through the Directorate General of Plantations continues to work to increase the production, productivity and quality of cane/sugar in Indonesia. Secretary of the Directorate General of Plantations, Heru Tri Widarto conveyed, the Ministry of Agriculture's strategy to increase cane sugar production was carried out through identifying the suitability of new land for planting sugar cane, utilizing abandoned HGU land, revitalizing sugar factories, investing in new sugar factories, and improving the partnership pattern between sugar mills and sugarcane farmer. "The Ministry of Agriculture also has an alternative strategy in realizing self-sufficiency in sugar through the development of non-cane sugar, namely from the development of stevia and palm sugar," he said in Yogyakarta, Wednesday (10/5). Based on data from the results of the 2023 Preliminary Assessment, the ...

Source: Tabloidsinartani