Indonesia's soybean imports still high<\/p>\n
JAKARTA (JP): Indonesian imports of soybean were projected to
\nstand at 600,000 tons this year, similar to the previous years'
\nfigures, as there are no signs local farmers have expanded their
\nsoy fields, a senior official of the Ministry of Agriculture said
\non Saturday.<\/p>\n
Director of beans and tubers at the directorate of food
\nproduction R.M.H. Manurung said Indonesia would only produce 1.6
\nmillion tons of soybean this year, while the country's soybean
\ndemand was around 2.2 million tons.<\/p>\n
\"We'll have to continue importing the commodity as the farming
\nareas are too small to produce adequate soybean for the country,\"
\nhe was quoted by Antara as saying.<\/p>\n
Indonesia imports soybean mainly from the United States, he
\nadded.<\/p>\n
According to him, local farmers had limited their farm land
\nfor soybean because the yield of the commodity was too low.<\/p>\n
\"The farmers think that soybean is not a viable prospect,\" he
\nsaid, adding that the farmers also faced difficulties in
\nobtaining good seed.<\/p>\n
To solve the problem, the ministry was trying to introduce
\nsome cultivation methods, including the use of herbicides, for
\nthe farmers to raise productivity levels of their soybean farms,
\nManurung said.<\/p>\n
The ministry has also urged each regency to provide good
\nsoybean seeds and set up a good distribution network to deliver
\nthe seeds continuously to farmers, he said.<\/p>\n
\"If this mechanism works and farmers find it easier to get
\nsoybean, we're sure farmers will be more interested to grow
\nsoybean,\" he added.(05)<\/p>",
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