Indonesian Government calls soybean meal imports still very large

Published 2021년 4월 3일

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The article highlights the dependency of Indonesia's poultry industry on imported feed ingredients, especially soybean meal (SBM), which has led to a significant increase in animal feed prices. Despite the successful reduction of corn imports for animal feed, SBM and meat bone meal (MBM) imports remain high due to limited local production and quality issues. Experts suggest a synergy between institutions to assist farmers and processors in technology application, infrastructure support, and logistics improvement to decrease reliance on imports. They also point out the potential of soybean farming in Indonesia to meet animal feed demands, given the industry's high economic value and the country's suitable climate for soybean cultivation. However, challenges such as low farmer interest due to fluctuating local soybean prices and low productivity need to be addressed for a sustainable local supply of feed ingredients.

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POULTRYINDONESIA, Jakarta - The sovereignty of local feed ingredients can be said to be quite fragile because the portion of imported feed ingredients is still very large, especially for soybean meal (SBM). In fact, recently the price of this commodity has also risen significantly so that it has an impact on the increase in the price of animal feed. This was raised in the 12th Poultry Indonesia Forum which was held through Zoom, Saturday (3/4). Diner Saragih, Head of Sub-Directorate for Feed Materials representing the Director of Feed, Directorate General of PKH, Ministry of Agriculture explained that the current condition of feed ingredients for poultry feed energy sources, namely corn has no longer been imported since 2017, while for rice bran it can still be fulfilled domestically. However, he admitted that 100 percent of SBM and MBM were still imported because they could not be fulfilled at all from the local level. "From 2015-2020, the volume of imports of protein source feed ...

Source: Poultry