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Indonesia: Mitra Tani Market and local food stores add outlets

Indonesia
Published Mar 29, 2021

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The presence of a balancing PMT in anticipation of rising food prices

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REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, BOGOR - Mitra Tani Market and Local Food Stores are adding outlets in Bogor City as an effort to bring people's access closer to meeting basic food needs as well as local food. Head of the Food Security Agency of the Ministry of Agriculture, Agung Hendriadi, said that the presence of the Mitra Tani Market (PMT) is a balancing act in anticipating food price increases in order to control and maintain prices at the farm level. Likewise with the presence of local food outlets as an effort to bring access to local food closer to the community through the facilitation of existing MSMEs. "We do all of this so that people have easy access to food and food security is maintained," said Agung when visiting PMT and local food outlets in Bogor on Sunday (28/3). On the same occasion the Deputy Mayor of Bogor, Dedie A. Rachim, who also visited, also expressed his enthusiasm for the presence of PMT and Local Food Stores in the city of Bogor. "Today I visited the farmer's shop, I ...
Source: Republika
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