Video: Vegetables for MBG, Millennial Farmers - Smart Farming Deployed

President Prabowo Subianto’s flagship Free Nutritious Meals (MBG) programme is cited by Muhammad Agung Sunusi, Director of Vegetables and Medicinal Plants at the Republic of Indonesia’s Ministry of Agriculture, as a driver of increased demand for horticultural vegetables, enabling higher vegetable demand at the farmer level and improving public welfare. To fulfil the needs for vegetables such as spinach, water spinach, carrots, potatoes, up to chillies and onions across Indonesia, particularly in non-core production areas like eastern Indonesia, the Ministry of Agriculture is implementing several strategies, including plans to build vegetable cold storage facilities. The Ministry of Agriculture is encouraging local governments to prepare cold storage for storing vegetable stocks, while the ministry itself is working to increase food production using technology, namely smart farming, from Java to Sulawesi, Nusa Tenggara, and Maluku, to mobilise Millennial Farmers. What are the Ministry of Agriculture’s strategies to boost vegetable production to meet MBG needs? For more details, watch the dialogue between Andi Shalini and Muhammad Agung Sunusi, Director of Vegetables and Medicinal Plants at the Republic of Indonesia’s Ministry of Agriculture, in Squawk Box, CNBC Indonesia (Monday, 13/04/2026).