Foreigners to help Indonesian farmers

Foreigners to help Indonesian farmers

MAKASSAR, South Sulawesi: Foreign donors, spearheaded by the
International Financial Corporation (IFC), will help farmers in
the eastern parts of Indonesia to raise the quality of their
products to increase their value and produce better profits.

Euan Marshall, an official with the IFC, a financial arm of
the World Bank, said that the help would take the form of
technical assistance and training for farmers.

He said during an opening of an IFC office in Makassar that
Makassar's farmers, for example, could get more money if they
could upgrade the quality of their seaweed products, before they
sold it to public. -- JP