The Ministry of Agriculture Affirms No Corn Feed Imports in 2025 One Million Hectare Corn Program Helps Achieve Self-Sufficiency. Red: Friska Yolandha

REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, BANTUL — The Directorate General of Food Crops of the Ministry of Agriculture (Kementan) ensures that the Indonesian Government will not import corn for livestock feed needs in 2025. The corn feed requirement will be fully met from domestic production. "On average, the corn we plant in Indonesia is feed corn, and God willing, we need a lot of feed corn. We have ensured that we will not import this year," said Yudi Sastro, Director General of Food Crops at Kementan, after attending a corn harvest movement event in Bantul Regency, Special Region of Yogyakarta (DIY), Saturday (15/6/2025). This certainty is supported by a synergy program between the National Police and Kementan together with local governments in planting one million hectares of corn nationally. One of the program locations is in the Klaras area, Canden, Bantul, which is currently being harvested. According to Yudi, national corn feed stocks are in a safe condition. Although he did not specify the ...