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Monday, January 20, 2025

The government raises the purchase price of unhusked rice and halts imports of four food commodities in the hope of achieving self-sufficiency.

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Farmers harvest rice in the Singosari rice field area, Malang, East Java, September 25, 2024. ANTARA/Muhammad Mada. tempo : 174314558641.

THE State Logistics Agency (Bulog) has set an ambitious target for domestic rice procurement this year. The state-owned company plans to purchase up to 3 million tons of rice from farmers, more than double last year’s purchase of 1.26 million tons. “Around 80 percent is going to be obtained at the peak of the harvest season,” said Epi Sulandari, Head of Institutional Relations at Bulog, during a regional inflation control c

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