Indonesian President Jokowi encourage efforts to reduce wheat imports
Cassava
Sorghum
Palm Sago Starch
Indonesia
Published Aug 25, 2022
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Jokowi presses wheat imports, is sorghum development a solution?
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Jakarta, CNBC Indonesia - President Joko Widodo continues to encourage various efforts to reduce dependence on wheat imports in the midst of the threat of a global food crisis. One of them is done through the development of substitute foods such as sorghum, cassava to sago. Head of Deputy II of the Coordinating Ministry for Economic Affairs, Musdhalifah Machmud said that the development of sorghum was not intended as a substitute for wheat but to increase food diversity. Later this effort can reduce consumption and imports of wheat while increasing national food security. What is the potential for developing sorghum to reduce Indonesia's wheat dependence? For more details, see Shafinaz ...
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