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Avoid Bulog Rice Import

JAKARTA, KOMPAS.com - To maintain the security of the national rice stocks, as much as possible Bulog to avoid imports.

"For rice imports could be a bad precedent. The farmers are not eager to become productive," said Sutarto Alimoeso, Director of Bulog, Wednesday (12/05/2010).

By the end of this year, Bulog will provide a national rice reserve of 1 million tons. This amount, Sutarto said, adequate to maintain price stability.

In order not to need to import rice, Indonesia must increase rice production. Given the continued susutnya wetland, then the increase in productivity of rice plants became very necessary.

Bulog target can absorb rice from farmers as much as 3.2 million tons by the end of this year. Sutarto said, the size of the amount of grain that is absorbed by Bulog every year depending on the amount of production of farmers. "Usually Bulog only able to absorb about 7 percent-8 percent of the total production of the farmers," said Sutarto. (Herlina KD / Cash)