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Indonesia's sweet potato with bright prospect

Sweet Potato
Indonesia
Published Mar 12, 2022

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My Agriculture — Sweet potato is considered a local food commodity that has the potential to be developed. This type of tuber is suitable as a mainstay commodity for export. In 2022, the Directorate General of Food Crops will allocate government assistance for the development of 2,000 hectares of sweet potatoes in several locations in Indonesia. "Let's take advantage of local food, local food has high nutritional value. It's just a matter of how we process it so that there is added value and there are exports to Korea," said Suwandi, Director General of Food Crops at the Ministry of Agriculture, as reported by the agriculture.go.id page.

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My Agriculture — Sweet potato is considered as a local food commodity that has the potential to be developed. This type of tuber is suitable as a mainstay commodity for export. In 2022, the Directorate General of Food Crops will allocate government assistance for the development of 2,000 hectares of sweet potatoes in several locations in Indonesia. "Let's take advantage of local food, local food has high nutritional value. It's just a matter of how we process it so that there is added value and there are exports to Korea," said Suwandi, Director General of Food Crops at the Ministry of Agriculture, as reported by the agriculture.go.id page. Suwandi called on farmers to take advantage of KUR (People's Business Credit) and partnerships to develop export-oriented sweet potato cultivation. Sweet potatoes are foodstuffs that have many varieties with different advantages. The potential of sweet potato as a raw material for the food industry is quite large, considering the abundant ...
Source: Pertanianku
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