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

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.

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.

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

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…

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

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.