Counting Grains
Tuesday, April 21, 2015
This is no easy task given that Indonesia is the world's largest consumer of rice, even at 114 kilograms per capita per year, which is lower than the 140 kilograms per capita per year, calculated by the United Nation's Food and Agricultural Office.
Challenges range from the hard reality that Indonesia's arable paddy fields are shrinking, to the declining number of people willing to work as farmers. Agricultural land is increasingly being converted for commercial or industrial use. For example, "between 2002 and 2011, our province lost 200 hectares a year," calculates the head of the crops division at Yogyakarta autonomous area's agricultural office, Sarworini Setyobudiastuti. And rural populations often prefer lucrative jobs, in factories and plantations, or as domestics and construction workers abroad.
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This is no easy task given that Indonesia is the world's largest consumer of rice, even at 114 kilograms per capita per year, which is lower than the 140 kilograms per capita per year, calculated by the United Nation's Food and Agricultural Office.
Challenges range from the hard reality that Indonesia's arable paddy fields are shrinking, to the declining number of people willing to work as farmers. Agricultural land is increasingly being converted fo
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