Bapanas Extends Corn SPHP Programme to Support Local Poultry Farmers

Head of the National Food Agency (Bapanas) Andi Amran Sulaiman has confirmed that the Food Supply and Price Stabilisation (SPHP) programme for corn will be extended to assist local farmers in maintaining feed costs and ensuring the sustainability of the national poultry industry. Amran stated that the policy is crucial because corn is a primary raw material for poultry feed. Ensuring a reliable supply of corn at affordable prices is expected to help keep production costs down for farmers. ‘Extend the SPHP corn programme, that is Bulog’s responsibility, extend it as long as possible. As long as farmers need it, provide it. It is simple, no need for pleasantries,’ said Amran, who also serves as Minister of Agriculture, during a statement in Jakarta on Tuesday. He made the remarks during a Poultry Coordination Meeting in Surabaya, East Java, and instructed the State Logistics Agency (Bulog) as the distribution operator to continue the corn SPHP distribution. Bapanas recorded that the total allocation for the corn feed SPHP programme, which has been running since May 2026, amounts to 242,000 tonnes, sourced from domestic farmers at favourable prices to support poultry farmers. Realisation has reached 46.55 percent, or approximately 118,000 tonnes. The programme is designed to assist more than 5,000 micro, small, and medium-scale farmers across 26 provinces, covering a total poultry population of 53 million birds. The government has set the price of feed corn at Rp5,000 per kilogramme for collection from Bulog warehouses, with a maximum price of Rp5,500 per kilogramme at the farmer level. Amran stressed that the government is taking a firm stance to maintain a balance between production input costs and output prices. ‘Please do not let feed prices rise. I am asking, I am ordering this, no more haggling,’ he asserted. The government does not want farmers to be further squeezed by rising production costs when egg prices have not yet provided an adequate rate of return. Smallholder farmers have responded positively to the government’s decision to address the pressures facing the national poultry industry. A number of concrete measures agreed upon during the meeting were seen as offering hope for the continuity of farming businesses, particularly amid the strain of feed costs and an oversupply of eggs. Suwardi, Chairman of the Prosperous Poultry Farmers Cooperative (KPUS), said farmers were satisfied with the government’s decisions resulting from the coordination meeting. He noted that the decisions demonstrated the government was listening and responding directly to the problems faced by farmers on the ground. ‘We are satisfied, because this has been discussed in a meeting. Hopefully, the implementation will be the same. This concerns the life and death of these farmers,’ Suwardi said after attending the poultry coordination meeting. One of the key decisions that drew farmers’ attention was the government’s commitment to ensuring feed prices do not further burden farmers while farm-gate egg prices remain below the reference purchase price. The Ministry of Agriculture has set the government purchase price for chicken eggs at the farmer level at Rp26,500 per kilogramme.