Minister Of Agriculture Amran: Collaboration With Various Parties Is The Key To Anticipating Food Crisis

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JAKARTA - Minister of Agriculture (Mentan) Andi Amran Sulaiman said through collaboration with various parties, one of which is the Navy (AL), is the key to anticipating the occurrence of a food crisis. "The condition of the world food and energy sector is experiencing a crisis, there are 10 countries that are experiencing hunger and 50 countries are threatened with hunger. Due to extreme climate change in the world," said Andi Amran Sulaiman in a major harvest with the Indonesian Navy, in Pesawaran Regency, Lampung, quoted from Antara, Wednesday, July 10. He said that in the January-February period, Indonesia had experienced a food deficit due to several factors, such as the El Nino climate phenomenon, a decrease in fertilizers of up to 50 percent, and policies that needed to be refined. All have been handled by changing fertilizer policies and several other policies. "So we must anticipate this food crisis so that there is no food shortage. One of the keys to achieving this is to establish collaboration with one of the Indonesian Navy," he said. He also explained that food is a strategic sector and has a fairly broad impact if it is not handled properly, so it is necessary to help all parties to continue to maintain food. "This collaboration has also been instructed by the President, when Indonesia experiences an extreme climate then the TNI, Polri and all must go down collaborating with the relevant ministries to overcome, one of which is about this food," he said. According to him, with the collaboration between which his party has accelerated to mitigate the risk of food shortage in various regions. "We must take care of the food by all this down in anticipation, if the food is disrupted then the state is disrupted because there will be a social conflict," he also said.

In order to help maintain food security, food security land belonging to the Indonesian Navy managed by the Lampung Navy Base (Lanal) and Brigif 4 Marines covering an area of 1,182 hectares consist of 42 hectares of corn, 250 hectares of rice land, 3 hectare horticultural land, and 262 hectares of banana, avocado and coconut plantations. In addition to agriculture and plantations, Lanal Lampung and Brigif 4 Marines also held food security in the form of vanamei bioflok shrimp farming, seaweed, melon Inthanon cultivation, hydroponic plants, stellar babel fish floating net cages and fish foods in the form of magot. The Indonesian Navy synergizes with the Ministry of Agriculture (Kementan) to ensure the success of the government's program to ensure food availability by activating the sleeping ground into productive land and empowering the surrounding community to improve the welfare of the community by increasing food supply.