Bungaran Saragih:"Farmers Are Poor As They Live In A Poor Country"

Minister of Agriculture and Plantations Bungaran Saragih attributes the drop in the price of unhusked rice solely to the low quality of farmers’ produce. In the opinion of the 56-year-old Pematangsiantar-born official, farmers should strive to achieve a certain level of quality of unhusked rice so they can sell their dry harvest unhusked rice (GKP) at the maximum price of Rp1,095 per kilogram.

Nevertheless, he admitted that the delay in th

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