Minister visits Tunisia

Minister visits Tunisia

JAKARTA (JP): Agriculture Minister Sjarifudin Baharsjah began
talks yesterday in Tunis to promote Indonesian exports of
agricultural commodities.

A ministry's spokesman said here yesterday the minister would
be meeting officials of the Tunisian government agency that holds
monopoly over the import of tea, coffee and sugar, and that
country's sole tea distributor.

The minister is also scheduled to meet with officials of a
private company, Compaigne des Phosphate de Gafsa, which is
interested in developing a fertilizer plant in Gresik, East Java.
The company has proposed a joint venture with the state-owned
petrochemical industrial company PT Petrokimia Gresik to build
the plant project with a designed capacity of 300,000 tons a
year.

The minister is being accompanied by officials from state-
owned estates, state-owned fertilizer company PT Pusri and state-
owned petrochemical industrial company PT Petrokimia Gresik.
(jsk)