Blusukan To New Market In Bogor, Minister Of Trade Happy Local Rice Prices Have Dropped By IDR 2,000

BOGOR - Minister of Trade (Mendag) Zulkifli Hasan said that local rice prices had started to fall in the market. This price decline is in line with the entry of the main harvest season in the country.

This was conveyed by the Minister of Trade Zulkifli Hasan after visiting Anyar Market, Bogor to check the prices of basic necessities.

"Alhamdulillah, we saw that the rice had started to fall according to what was said some time ago," he said at Anyar Market, Bogor, Monday, March 18.

The man who is familiarly called Zulhas said that the price reduction was quite significant. There is even up to Rp. 2,000 per kilogram (kg).

"But what I'm happy about is that the decline is almost Rp. 1,000 per kg, there is Rp. 17,000 to Rp. 15,000, some (down) Rp. 2,000 one kg. Thank God," he said.

Zulhas hopes that rice prices will gradually fall and return to normal. This is in line with the main harvest season which starts at the end of March to April 2024.

"Hopefully the end of the month until next month will harvest the highway so that local rice prices will return to normal again. But if the rice is Bulog stable," he explained.

Furthermore, Zulhas said that the price of rice is still high at this time. This is because the price of unhulled rice at the farmer level is still expensive. Therefore, he considered the DPR to be wrong if he said the price of unhulled rice had dropped.

"But if the DPR says that grain is cheap, wrong, because grain is a fight and expensive. Some are Rp. 7,000, some are Rp. 8,000, that's unhulled. There are no farmers who complain about the cheap price of unhulled rice today, until now there is none," he said.