North Sumatra Food Task Force Finds Stockpile Of 1.1 Million Kilograms Of Cooking Oil In Deli Serdang

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MEDAN - A pile of cooking oil belonging to a producer located in Deli Serdang Regency was found by the Food Task Force Team of North Sumatra Province.

Unmitigated pile of cooking oil that is ready to be marketed amounted to 1.1 million Kg.

Head of the Economic Bureau of the North Sumatra Provincial Government, Naslindo Sirait said the Food Task Force consisting of the North Sumatra Police and the Industry and Trade Department conducted an inspection to investigate the scarcity of cooking oil.

"Today we did an inspection of one cooking oil producer, last night we went to the markets to see the availability of cooking oil, several markets were empty. Today we saw the fact that there were around 1.1 million kilograms of cooking oil ready to be marketed. in the warehouse," said Naslindo, Friday, February 18.

Naslindo explained that when the pile of cooking oil was found, the officers at the location said they did not distribute the cooking oil to the market. The reason is, there is a policy from management that prohibits this.

The discovery of the location of this cooking oil pile, he said, has now been handed over to the North Sumatra Police.

"Currently it is difficult for people to get cooking oil while there are companies that do not distribute it," he said.

Naslindo asked the head of the company to immediately distribute the cooking oil to distributors in the North Sumatra region. so that shortages can be quickly resolved.

"We will also continue to monitor and inspect other producers and distributors to ensure that no one is hoarding it. We know that cooking oil is one of the main needs of the community. If it is scarce and prices rise, it will trigger inflation which has a bad impact on the economy. ," he said.

In addition, Naslindo also appealed to producers, distributors and traders not to hoard traded food ingredients.

"We must not complicate the difficult situation due to the COVID-19 pandemic with bad behavior. All of us, especially entrepreneurs, must have the awareness that we must together save our economy," he concluded.