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 welfare improves.
Remarks at the BRICS Agriculture Ministerial Meeting
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Furthermore, rice is no longer the main contributor to inflation. This has been the case for two consecutive years.
The head of Merauke Regency told me earlier that people’s income had increased by up to 300 percent.
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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.
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