Ministry of Agriculture encourages downstream development and food exports in Indonesia

Published 2021년 11월 7일

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The Ministry of Agriculture in Indonesia is promoting the development of downstream and local food exports to enhance food security and boost the national economy. It is encouraging micro and medium food businesses to improve the quality of export-oriented processed food products, with a focus on local commodities like cassava, taro, and sorghum. The Ministry is also urging regional heads to prepare food stocks and a logistics system to meet the food needs of the population for the next two years. The Ministry has signed a cooperation agreement with Accor Hotels in the East Java region to build a partnership for MSMEs and promote the processing industry. Accor Hotels supports local food supply SMEs and is involved in the development of local food.

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REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, JAKARTA -- The Ministry of Agriculture (Kementan) encourages the development of downstream and local food exports. This effort is carried out to improve food security and the national economy by encouraging micro and medium food business actors to contribute to improving the quality of export-oriented processed food products. "Today is a step from the Ministry of Agriculture together with the East Java government and other ranks in order to encourage a more concrete downstreaming of agriculture. We hope that cooperation with accor or hotel associations can take advantage of commodities from our local agriculture such as cassava, taro, sorghum, and so on." there are many other commodities that can be used as mainstay menus and export commodities," he said in a press release, Friday (11/5). He said, according to President Jokowi's direction, Indonesian local food commodities must be encouraged to enter international consumption markets. Therefore, local food must be ...

Source: Republika