Sanggau (20/10) -The Ministry of Agriculture (Kementan) gave a special gift for the 3 years of the Jokowi-JK administration, namely harvesting rice on a stretch of 120 ha in Tunggal Bhakti Village, Kembayan District, Sanggau Regency and at the same time launching 25 tons of rice exports to Malaysia with Premium and Medium quality(19/10)
Minister of Agriculture Andi Amran Sulaiman said the condition of rice farming in West Kalimantan had experienced a surplus of quite a lot, reaching 350 thousand tons. For Sanggau Regency, the surplus of rice has exceeded 50 thousand tons.
The Minister of Agriculture was accompanied by the Head of the Food Security Agency, Pangdam XII Tanjung Pura, Regent of Sanggau. Also present was Malaysian representative Datuk Sallehuddin Bin Hassan, Tim
the chairman of the Malaysian Ministry of Agriculture, Ismail Yusuf from Bernas and H. Jummat H. Ibrahim, PT. Echo Sapras Eternal (importer).
Amran said the Malaysian government needs to import more than one million tons of rice every year. This need is covered by importing from Thailand, Vietnam, and a number of other countries. To cover these needs, the Indonesian government has held talks and convinced the Malaysian government that Indonesia can participate in covering these needs.
Importers from Malaysia also asked for a supply of rice from Indonesia as much as 140 thousand tons. For this reason, said Amran, exports to Malaysia will not only be carried out this time, the Ministry of Agriculture will gradually export rice according to needs.
