How to Become a Recipient of the 2026 Maize Food Supply and Price Stabilisation Programme
The National Food Agency (Bapanas) has explained the official procedures and process for independent livestock farmers to become recipients of the 2026 Maize Food Supply and Price Stabilisation Programme (SPHP).
The programme aims to maintain the availability of affordable livestock feed supply at the farmer level.
“Based on the latest scheme, the registration process is conducted in stages through coordination between farming cooperatives, regional authorities, and relevant ministries, before finally being distributed by Bulog,” said I Gusti Ketut Astawa, Deputy for Food Supply and Stabilisation at Bapanas, during a Coordination Meeting of the Food Price Control Team (TPID) in Bengkulu on Monday, 16 March 2026.
He explained that there are seven main steps that independent livestock farmers must follow to gain access to the SPHP Maize programme. First, farmers must register through cooperatives. Independent livestock farmers, whether layer chickens or other livestock, must register themselves as prospective programme recipients through local farming cooperatives or associations. Farmers must submit data on livestock population and detailed information about their maize requirements.
Next, the cooperative or association proposes the independent farmer data to the Food or Livestock Services at the Regency/City level. A copy of this proposal is also sent to relevant services at the provincial level.
“The Regency/City-level services are responsible for verifying the eligibility of incoming data before forwarding it to the Provincial Livestock Services,” he continued.
The Provincial Livestock Services will conduct further verification of the data. Once declared valid, the data is forwarded to the Ministry of Agriculture through the Directorate General of Livestock and Animal Health (Ditjen PKH).
Ditjen PKH verifies and validates the By Name By Address (BNBA) data of maize SPHP recipients. Once valid, Ditjen PKH will issue a Decision Letter (SK) and submit the data proposal to Bapanas.
Bapanas re-validates the received data and issues an official assignment letter to Bulog to carry out the distribution.
“Data verification and validation is conducted multiple times to ensure that beneficiaries are correctly targeted,” he emphasised.
As the final step, Ketut Astawa explained, Bulog gives instructions to Bulog offices in cities or regencies to distribute maize to farmers through registered cooperatives or associations.
“Through this integrated process, the government hopes that feed subsidy distribution will be precisely targeted and able to reduce production costs for farmers amid fluctuations in global commodity prices,” he explained.
Ketut added that there are several changes to the SPHP Maize distribution mechanism in 2026. First, beneficiaries will not only include layer chicken farmers and broiler/meat chicken farmers but also independent pig farmers. Second, there is a significant increase in the target by 242,000 tonnes in 2026, up from 52,400 tonnes in 2025. Finally, distribution will use the Klik SPHP Jagung application.
“To optimise the distribution of SPHP Maize in 2026, we have provided the Klik SPHP Jagung application, improved the quality of Government Maize Reserves (CJP), and increased supervision of SPHP Maize distribution,” he subsequently explained.
Meanwhile, Bengkulu’s Deputy Governor Mian welcomed the increase in the target number of SPHP maize recipients in 2026, so that more farmers in Bengkulu can access the programme. This is because one of the main obstacles for farmers in Bengkulu has been the availability of cheap livestock feed.
“This programme is certainly very helpful for farmers in Bengkulu, especially to address the problem of cheap livestock feed availability,” said Mian on the same occasion.
He also added that to date, to meet the needs for eggs and chicken meat, including livestock feed, Bengkulu still depends on neighbouring provinces, namely West Sumatra and Jambi. This results in feed prices, as well as egg and chicken prices in Bengkulu being more expensive due to the added transport costs.