RI donates tea to UN

RI donates tea to UN

BOGOR, West Java (JP): The government contributed yesterday 150 tons of tea worth US$200,000 to the World Food Program (WFP) of the United Nations.

An agreement on the contribution was signed here by Secretary- general of the Ministry of Agriculture Soetatwo Hadiwigeno and WFP resident representative Caspar Jan Kamp.

Kamp said 61.7 tons of the donated tea will be shipped to Egypt and be distributed under four WFP projects, while the remaining 88.3 tons will be shipped to other Middle East countries early next year.

Soetatwo said Indonesia's contributions to WFP between 1963 and 1995 had cumulatively amounted to $3.56 million worth of commodities such as tea, coffee and vegetable oil. In the same period, WFP food assistance to Indonesia totaled $210 million.

Indonesia produced 123,000 tons of tea this year, of which 100,000 tons were exported to the United States, Pakistan, Malaysia and European countries. (04)