Supporting Free Nutritious Meals, 50 dairy cows from Australia finally arrive in Indonesia

Published 2024년 12월 4일

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Fifty pregnant Frisian Holstein dairy cows from Australia have been imported into Indonesia to support the Free Nutritious Meals and Milk Drinking programs, and to work towards national milk self-sufficiency. This is part of the government's strategy to increase the dairy cow population by adding 1 million cows in the next five years. These cows, owned by PT. Juang Jaya Abdi Alam, will be located in Lampung to provide milk for the province. Additionally, 600 dairy sheep and goats have also been imported, belonging to PT. Samana Agri Yasa, and will be sent to a quarantine facility in Central Java.

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A total of 50 pregnant Frisian Holstein dairy cows from Australia have arrived in Indonesia, marking the start of efforts to accelerate investment in the livestock sub-sector. The presence of these pregnant dairy cows is expected to support the Free Nutritious Meals (MBG) and Milk Drinking programs promoted by the government. The Minister of Agriculture (Mentan) Andi Amran Sulaiman previously said that the effort to import dairy cows was part of the government's strategy to meet national milk needs while achieving milk self-sufficiency through importing dairy cows from abroad. Also Read: Ministry of Social Affairs: 17,624 Portions of Food/day Distributed to Victims of Mount Lewotobi Eruption Director General of Animal Husbandry and Animal Health (Dirjen PKH), Agung Suganda emphasized that the arrival of these pregnant dairy cows is part of the Ministry of Agriculture's blueprint plan to encourage the role of investors in increasing the dairy cow population in Indonesia. This plan ...

Source: Wartaekonomi