The Indonesian Ministry of Agriculture's efforts to encourage soybean farmers

Soybean

Indonesia

Published Feb 26, 2022

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REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, JAKARTA -- Soybean is one of the food sources besides rice and corn which is favored by almost all ages. The need for this vegetable protein-producing food commodity continues to increase every year in line with population growth and the need for raw materials for processed industries such as tofu, tempeh, soy sauce, and milk.

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Observing this, in 2022 the Ministry of Agriculture will make efforts to ensure the availability of soybeans primarily to meet household consumption needs by facilitating the development of 52 thousand hectares of soybeans spread over 16 regions. One of them is in Grobogan Regency, Central Java. According to the Head of the Grobogan Agriculture Service, Sunanto, his party considers soybeans to be local wisdom because the results of continuous selection have made Grobogan one of the national soybean centers. "From the results of continuous selection, it produces the Grobogan variety. So, the Grobogan variety is not the result of breeding but of varietal purification selection. And this lasts a long time so that it produces national superior varieties," said Sunanto when met at his office, Thursday (24/2/ 2022) ago. According to him, the Grobogan soybean variety has several advantages, namely not including GMO soybeans, non-GMO. Then the production potential is high, reaching 3.2 ...

Source: Republika