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        "msgid": "rice-imports-likely-despite-better-output-1447893297",
        "date": "1995-07-14 00:00:00",
        "title": "Rice imports likely, despite better output",
        "author": null,
        "source": "JP",
        "tags": null,
        "topic": null,
        "summary": "Rice imports likely, despite better output JAKARTA (JP): The government has predicted that the amount of rice produced in the country will grow this year but admits that imports will likely remain necessary in order to increase bufferstocks.",
        "content": "<p>Rice imports likely, despite better output<\/p>\n<p>JAKARTA (JP): The government has predicted that the amount of<br>\nrice produced in the country will grow this year but admits that<br>\nimports will likely remain necessary in order to increase<br>\nbufferstocks.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;According to the second projection of the Central Bureau of<br>\nStatistics, this years&apos; rice production is likely to grow by 3.5<br>\npercent instead of 2.1 percent as projected before,&quot; Secretary-<br>\nGeneral of the Ministry Agriculture Soetatwo Hadiwigeno told The<br>\nJakarta Post yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>The bureau said recently that Indonesia&apos;s rice production fell<br>\n3.2 percent to 46.64 million tons of unhusked rice -- the lowest<br>\nlevel in 15 years -- last year from 48.18 million tons in 1993.<\/p>\n<p>Last year&apos;s decline in output, which was caused mainly by a<br>\nsevere drought, forced the country to import a significant amount<br>\nof rice for the first time in years.<\/p>\n<p>Soetatwo said after the closing of the four-day Ministry of<br>\nAgriculture workshop yesterday that rice imports will likely<br>\nhappen this year to increase the bufferstocks of the National<br>\nLogistic Bureau (Bulog) for its market operations aimed at<br>\nstabilizing the domestic market.<\/p>\n<p>Official sources said recently that Bulog&apos;s bufferstocks fell<br>\nto less than 200,000 tons earlier this year, before appointing<br>\nBeddu Amang as its chairman to replace Ibrahim Hasan, who is also<br>\nthe food minister.<\/p>\n<p>Beddu reported to the House of Representatives in a recent<br>\nhearing that Bulog so far this year has managed to increase its<br>\nbufferstocks of rice to around 1.2 million tons.<\/p>\n<p>Beddu said that by the beginning of 1996, Indonesia will<br>\nlikely become self-sufficient in rice again.<\/p>\n<p>Indonesia, formerly the biggest rice importer in the world,<br>\nbecame self-sufficient in rice in 1984.<\/p>\n<p>Minister of Agriculture Sjarifudin Baharsjah yesterday closed<br>\nthe workshop meeting, which was attended by some 300<br>\nparticipants, including Ministry of Agriculture officials from<br>\nthe regency to national levels, as well as executives of state<br>\nenterprises overseen by the ministry and local administration<br>\nofficials from Indonesia&apos;s 27 provinces.(31)<\/p>",
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