Vice President Ma'ruf Amin Reminds Food Security Is Important For Indonesia

Indonesian Vice President (Vice President) Ma'ruf Amin gave a speech at the Launching of Agricultural Digitization at Al Ittifaq Islamic Boarding School / Photo: Antara

JAKARTA - The Vice President (Vice President) of the Republic of Indonesia Ma'ruf Amin reminded that food security is very vital for any country in the world, including Indonesia, because it is related to the survival of the entire population in the world. Water. "Food security is vital for any country in the world, because food is related to the survival of the entire world population," said the Vice President in his remarks at the Launching of Agricultural Digitization, at the Al Ittifaq Islamic Boarding School, Rancabali, Bandung Regency, West Java, Tuesday. March 22. Quoted by Antara, the Vice President said, based on food security data, it is known that the survival capacity of Indonesia's food reserves in 2020 is only about 21 days. This figure is calculated from 1.7 million tons of rice reserves for 271 million people. Indonesia's survival rate is only slightly different from Vietnam, whose food security reaches 23 days. That's a bit long 681 days, America 1,068 days. Therefore, the Government is very serious about working on food affairs, including the allocation of IDR 76.9 trillion in 2022 to strengthen food security," he also said.

The Vice President explained that the Government's efforts to strengthen food security were starting from increasing the affordability and adequacy of productivity and income of farmers or fishermen, food diversification, improving the business climate and competitiveness to strengthening the system. economic growth, especially during the pandemic," he said. The vice president said based on data from the Central Statistics Agency (BPS), Indonesia's economy was recorded to grow 3.69 percent in 2021. Although agriculture's contribution to Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is quite large, the agricultural sector still bears the burden. The burden is quite large. The large burden of the agricultural sector is partly due to the large number of workers, as well as the fact that almost half of poor households depend on the agricultural sector for their livelihood. The Vice President emphasized that farmers are key players who have a large share in the agricultural sector. For this reason, increasing the productivity of economies of scale to farmers' incomes is something that the Government must pay attention to. "The President has given special directions to immediately build a farmer's corporate business model. Primarily to increase economies of scale and efficiency, as well as support the economic transformation of farmers and fishermen who are encouraged to Groups in large numbers form a corporation," he said. Therefore, I consider cooperatives to be the right answer to overshadow the formation of a farmer and fisherman corporation, because cooperatives are legal entities and most of the capital is owned by their members," he said. agricultural corporations that are more advanced, modern as well as beneficial for the welfare of the farmers.