The Indonesian Government is trying to expedite food self-sufficiency as the main focus of the Asta Cita vision and the Fast Best Results Program (PHTC) to meet the community's food needs.From a domestic perspective, there is an urgent need to accelerate food self-sufficiency to support the Free Nutritious Meal Program for students, toddlers, and pregnant women.Initiated by President Prabowo Subianto, the program is targeting to cover more than 80 million beneficiaries by 2029.In the long term, Indonesia will experience a demographic bonus in 2030, where the productive age population will dominate the population age structure.This will require strengthening food security to meet the increase in food consumption.Considering these conditions, the Prabowo-Gibran administration has been carrying out several measures to accelerate food self-sufficiency.In terms of budget, the government has re-prioritized the budget, allocating Rp23.61 trillion for activities for building rice self-sufficiency and Rp413.67 billion for the free meals program.The next step is the plan to cultivate 2.3 million hectares of rice fields, including optimizing new rice fields, as well as normalizing tertiary, primary, and secondary irrigation in existing areas. The government is also continuing the food estate program, which is playing an important role in creating sustainable national food security while giving rise to food distribution hubs in regions. Those policies need to be followed up by a number of supporting strategies, including infrastructure development, to successfully accelerate food self-sufficiency. The infrastructure development strategies are irrigation development and rehabilitation (the development of 10 thousand hectares and the rehabilitation of 45 thousand hectares of irrigation networks), supporting road and bridge connectivity to food production centers as well as food estates, and completion of dams (sixty-one more dams were slated for completion from 2015 to 2025, as well as an additional 11 dam projects announced, taking the total number of dams to 259).Source: https://en.antaranews.com/news/337672/developing-infrastructure-to-accelerate-food-sufficiency?utm_source=antaranews&utm_medium=mobile&utm_campaign=latest_home  (ICE GIACARTA)

Fonte notizia: ANTARA NEWS, 11 December 2024