Indonesia: NFA seeks to revise unhusked rice prices before peak harvest

We have heard opinions and input from all representatives. We have gathered their proposed price. Jakarta (ANTARA) - The National Food Agency (NFA) invited all stakeholders in the national rice business to provide inputs on revising the government's purchasing price (HPP) for unhusked rice ahead of the peak harvest season in March. "We have heard opinions and input from all representatives. We have gathered their proposed price," NFA Head Arief Prasetyo Adi said in a statement received here on Friday. According to Adi, a crucial meeting was held with representatives from ministries, government institutions, associations, farmers' organizations, and business actors for setting the purchase price. The meeting sought to determine the HPP that would become a benchmark for absorbing farmers' unhusked rice. The meeting was a form of the government's commitment to involve all stakeholders in the industry to set a fair purchase price for unhusked rice, he said. "Later, we ...