Anticipate Food Recession, ID Food Collaboration With Farmers

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JAKARTA - Food SOE holding ID Food is committed to collaborating with farmers to support the government in anticipating the impact of the food recession.

The collaboration in question is to help increase farmers' production. The President Director of Food Holding ID Food, Frans Marganda Tambunan, said that the current farmer partners who are members of the prosperous program for 2021-2022 reached 172,522 people from an area of around 324,740 hectares for rice, sugar cane, corn, palm oil and coffee commodities.

"This is a form of our support in the agricultural sector, we are ready to collaborate and help increase production, increase income and the welfare of farmers," he said in an official statement, Tuesday, December 20.

Frans said this was as directed by SOE Minister Erick Thohir to anticipate the impact of the food recession, protect farmers and for multipliers from the effects of food supply chains.

"Through a prosperous program, together with other SOE synergies have produced crops and absorbed the production of synergy farmers between SOEs and private sectors in 121,041 hectares of upstream food land spread over several locations in Indonesia," he said.

In the sugarcane commodity farming sector, said Frans, ID Food has taken off the farmers' cane of up to IDR 1 trillion in 2022, and the commitment to offtake sugarcane from farmers every year.

"According to Minister Erick's direction, to absorb farmers' production and as part of the realization of the food supply chain. In fact, to protect sugarcane farmers, ID Food has implemented the first sugar SRG in Indonesia which is useful as a support for post-harvest production of stock management instruments and mitigation of the risk of price fluctuations," said Frans.

Frans said that his party is ready to collaborate to support the government in optimizing the absorption of farmers' production and maintaining food availability.

"ID Food is ready to collaborate to ensure availability downstream food, especially ahead of Christmas and the new year," he said.