‘We need to counter the image of farming as an unattractive occupation with bleak prospects for young people. If not us, then there is no future for Indonesian agriculture.”
Food
The palm oil industry, long accused of large-scale deforestation, is bracing for another hit to its business: machine lubricants seeping into the world’s most consumed edible oil during processing.
Australia is now the only country in the world with a permit to export feed grain to Indonesia after the ratification of a preferred trade agreement between the two countries earlier this week.
ITS has established an interdisciplinary research centre that will unite research related to agriculture, food and biotechnology.
Concerns that coronavirus could lead to a halt in those shipments has spurred an almost 70% surge in garlic prices in the capital Jakarta in just one week.
China and Indonesia have both used integrated rural development policies as part or their overall poverty-reduction programmes, yet they have achieved two very different outcomes.
The world is facing a major food crisis where both obesity and hunger are rising in the context of rapidly changing environments. Alternative food sources such as seaweed could be a possible solution.
“For the first 12 months we will open five stores in Jakarta, targeting the middle class. We chose Taco Bell because their products are good and healthy.”
You’re reading this with a cup of coffee in your hand, aren’t you? Coffee is the most popular drink in many parts of the world. Americans drink more coffee than soda, juice and tea — combined.
Indonesia’s Ministry of Maritime Affairs and Fisheries increases a seaweed production target in 2020 to 10.99 million tonnes, from 9.9 million tonnes in 2019.
Researchers from Faculty of Veterinary Medicine UGM have utilised teak tree leaves for cow feed. This step was taken to resolve the difficulty farmers were facing in Gunungkidul regency to find the feed during the dry season.
The resurgence of tensions between Indonesia and China in the South China Sea is a development to monitor in 2020, for it has broader implications for Australia and its partners in the Indo-Pacific region.
A report by the environmental group Greenpeace highlights harrowing testimonies from Indonesian migrant workers about dire conditions on board foreign distant-water fishing vessels.
Indonesia’s military has stepped up naval and aerial patrols of the Natuna Sea area because of a rising number of Chinese fishing vessels.
Indonesia’s Supreme Court has struck down a regulation that allowed activities by plantation companies in protected forest areas.
The eight fisheries engaged in the process come from various parts of the Indonesian archipelago.
