The ambition of 47-year-old Anton Apriyantono, Minister of Agriculture, to improve the lives of farmers in Indonesia, is indeed noble. It is a mission he vowed to carry out when President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono appointed him as a member of his United Indonesia Cabinet. As soon as he took office, this university lecturer at the Bogor Institute of Agriculture immediately set out to come up with a concept to improve the welfare of farmers.

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