Supporting Free Nutritious Meal Program, Minister of Agriculture Explores Dairy Industry Cooperation with Vietnam Indonesia must be able to increase its milk and beef production capacity. Rep: Frederikus Dominggus Bata/ Red: Ahmad Fikri Noor

REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, JAKARTA – Minister of Agriculture (Mentan) Andi Amran Sulaiman received a visit from Madam Thai Huong, Chairman of TH Group Vietnam, in order to explore investment opportunities in the Indonesian dairy industry sector. The meeting which took place on Thursday (13/2/2025) afternoon in Jakarta was the first step for strategic cooperation between TH Group Vietnam and Indonesia in the future. In his remarks, Amran emphasized that Indonesia has a fairly large need for milk and beef. Currently, domestic fresh milk production is only able to meet around 20 percent of national needs, with a deficit of 4.9 million tons. This figure has increased with the free nutritious food program from the new government, which increases the need by 3.6 million tons of fresh milk. "Indonesia must be able to increase its milk and beef production capacity, which is around 4.9 million tons for fresh milk and 0.83 million tons for beef. With the additional needs from the free nutritious ...