Mahfud MD Alludes To Fertilizer Subsidy Rising But Farmers And Land Are Increasingly Shrinking

Vice Presidential Candidate number 3, Mahfud MD. (Screenshot of live broadcast of the 4th Candidate for Vice Presidential Candidate 2024)

JAKARTA - Candidate for Vice President number 3, Mahfud MD in the 2024 Cawapres debate, alluded to higher fertilizer subsidies.

In fact, he said, in the midst of increasing fertilizer subsidies from year to year, this is inversely proportional to the smaller number of farmers and shrinking land.

"Our natural resources are very rich but the food has not been sovereign, farmers are getting less, the land for plantations is getting less but the fertilizer subsidies are getting bigger," said Mahfud, Sunday, January 21.

Mahfud suspects that there is something wrong with this, based on the basic law, contained a statement stating that natural resources must be managed for the greatest prosperity of the people.

Furthermore, Mahfud stated that nowadays there are still many Indonesian seas that are polluted by waste, the air is full of pollution, but more and more investors enter and industrialization occurs and the environment is getting worse, causing suffering to the people.

"I made a verdict on June 16, 2011 that there are 4. One use, two equity, three community participations and then respect for things inherited by meluhuur," continued Mahfud.

Mahfud said that he and Ganjar Pranowo would carry out the 4 benchmarks when they became President and Vice President in the future.