Hwang-Jaw Lee, PhD
Board Director, Taiwan Flowers Development Association
Ranging from carbohydrates (rice, wheat), protein (soybeans) to fat (peanuts, sesame seeds), only whole grains and legumes can readily satisfy the bulk of the human body’s nutritional needs. The average...
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Prabowo, who won the February presidential election by a convincing margin, has pledged to achieve food self-sufficiency in the next four years after he takes office on Oct. 20.
Indonesia currently has 7.4 million hectares of farming area, a 8.5% decline compared to 8.08 million hectares in 2015, government data showed, due to land conversion for housing and industrial areas.
Prabowo wants to expand this by 3 million hectares - roughly the size of Belgium - to plant rice, corn and soybeans, said Sudaryono, a politician from Prabowo's Gerindra party, who was appointed as deputy agriculture minister under the outgoing government in August to help prepare for the president-elect's flagship programmes ahead of his inauguration.
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