Bulog Boss Says There Are Three Challenges Of Food Stability In 2024

President Director of Perum Bulog Bayu Krisnamurthi (center). (Photo: Doc. ANTARA)

JAKARTA - President Director of Perum Bulog Bayu Krisnamurthi said that food stability will face three major challenges in 2024.

Starting from reducing productivity to increasing world food prices.

"At the end of 2023 and it seems that in the 2024 projection, food stability will face three big challenges," he said at the Bulog Corporate University office, Jakarta, Thursday, December 21.

Furthermore, Bayu said, the first challenge is the decline in food crop productivity, especially rice.

"Unfortunately, our production has decreased, the decline has been conveyed by BPS and the Ministry of Agriculture, if you look at the trend of food crop productivity, especially rice, has also decreased," he said.

The second challenge, continued Bayu, was that the decrease in productivity was accompanied by increased production costs. Starting from fertilizer prices to energy as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.

"There has been an increase in costs, especially the cost of fertilizers, due to the pandemic and others. Including energy costs and others," he said.

Finally, said Bayu, the challenge faced was the increase in world food prices. This condition is because India and Ukraine as supply chains have not yet recovered. In addition, the policies of other countries are also now more protective.

"So indeed food stability faces tough challenges in 2023 and many institutions say the situation will also have many challenges in 2024," he said.

Untuk menghadapi tiga tantangan tersebut, sambung Bayu, pemerintah perlu memiliki cadangan pangan. Kata dia, cadangan pangan ini harus menjadi perhatian.

"There must be government food reserves, the formula theory shows that if there is stability, it must have stock. The stock system in modern food logistics has developed, it is not enough to say that there is a barapa in the warehouse, because it is not only stock but stock and flow of the product," he said.