NTT Targeted for National Salt Granary

THE East Nusa Tenggara (NTT) provincial government is targeting the region to become a national salt barn by the year 2014. “We’re determined to make NTT a national storehouse of salt by 2014,” declared NTT Governor Frans Lebu Raya in Kupang on Tuesday last week (2/15).

Toward this end, he said the NTT government had prepared8,505 hectares of land to be developed into a salt-works industry. The areas