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Farmers Get No Benefit from Rising Rice Prices

Monday, February 26, 2024

Farmers do not get profits from the soaring price of rice. Yields continue to decline because of technical issues and land conversion.

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A rice mill in Pegagan village, Cirebon Regency, West Java. TEMPO/Ivansyah . tempo : 178075209968.

THE rice prices continue to rise, but Tarsono’s dreams of profiting from it remain unfulfilled. The 39-year-old farmer from Nunuk village, Indramayu Regency, West Java, had run out of rice grains several months ago. His harvest had failed in the second planting season of 2023, in July-September, due to the drought caused by El-Niño. “There is no supply in the warehouse,” he said on February 21, 2024.

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Caesar Akbar and Didit Hariyadi (Makassar) contributed to this report.

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