Andi Amar Ma'ruf Sulaiman

The minister expressed optimism that increased budget support, agricultural infrastructure development, and collaboration with indigenous communities would enable the agricultural sector to drive prosperity in Papua

I have proposed an additional budget, and we will prepare it for next year

We cannot wait until a crisis occurs. Our principle is upstream mitigation.

We must act before the drought spreads. We must not let farmers lose their planting season.

The head of Merauke Regency told me earlier that people’s income had increased by up to 300 percent.

Furthermore, rice is no longer the main contributor to inflation. This has been the case for two consecutive years.

The FAO has ranked Indonesia as the largest rice producer in Southeast Asia and the fourth highest in the world after India, China, and Bangladesh.

Agricultural modernization is key to maintaining national food security. We are promoting innovation and technology-based agriculture. With technology, productivity increases, cropping indexes rise, production costs decrease and farmer…

What does this mean? We open land, and the workforce will continue to work there for up to 30 years because these crops, God willing, are highly productive.

This is an example of good coconut seedlings. This should be emulated throughout Indonesia.