The Ministry of Agriculture: Indonesia Has Achieved Self-Sufficiency in Chicken Meat and Eggs The Ministry of Agriculture is working to maintain the stability of chicken and egg supplies. Red: Erdy Nasrul

The Ministry of Agriculture revealed that Indonesia has achieved self-sufficiency and even surplus production of chicken meat and chicken eggs. "Indonesia has achieved self-sufficiency for chicken meat and chicken eggs, reaching a surplus of 0.12 million tons and 0.17 million tons, respectively," said the Director General of Livestock and Animal Health at the Ministry of Agriculture, Agung Suganda, in Probolinggo, East Java on Tuesday. Currently, the government continues to strive to maintain supply and demand stability to ensure that live chicken and egg prices at the farmer level do not fall too low below production costs. However, for beef, Indonesia still needs to import around 52 percent of national requirements. For milk, Indonesia needs to import around 79 percent of national requirements. As information, the Ministry of Agriculture is partnering with the Food Task Force of the National Police to stabilize live chicken prices through distribution supervision, farmer ...