The Indonesian Ministry of Agriculture will accelerate the increase in planting area and production of rice and corn by 2024

JAKARTA (AGRINA-ONLINE.COM) – Minister of Agriculture (Mentan) Andi Amran Sulaiman is accelerating the increase in planting area and production of rice and corn for 2024. This expansion of planting land will be carried out as a continuation of the swamp land utilization optimization program carried out by Minister of Agriculture Amran in 2014-2019 during his previous leadership. "We will accelerate Indonesia's great potential, namely mineral swamp land. "We have done this in the past in South Sumatra and South Kalimantan," said Minister of Agriculture Amran at the 2024 Acceleration Meeting for Increasing Planting Area and Production of Rice and Corn (30/10). According to Minister of Agriculture Amran, optimizing the use of swamp land could be a solution to increasing national food production. The Ministry of Agriculture plans to plant 1 million hectares of mineral swamp land and 1 million hectares of rain-fed swamp land. After successfully converting ...