AMIN Promises Improvement Of Farmers' Food And Welfare Administration

Anies Baswedan and Muhaimin Iskandar (AMIN) in the Slawi Akbar Meeting at the Balanced Institutional Field, Tegal, Central Java, Tuesday (30/1/2024). ANTARA/HO-Timnas AMIN.

JAKARTA - The presidential and vice presidential candidates Anies Baswedan and Muhaimin Iskandar (AMIN) promised to improve food trading that improve farmers' welfare.

TheAMIN Pair attended the Slawi Akbar Meeting at the Balanced Pendawa Field, Tegal, Central Java, and spoke about the welfare of farmers.

"Moreover, Tegal is a rural area with residents who are livelihoods for fishermen and farmers," said Anies as quoted by ANTARA, Tuesday, January 30.

The Governor of DKI Jakarta for the 2017-2022 period is committed to improving food trading, so that it will be able to prosper farmers and maintain food price stability.

"We are jointly committed to improving food trading so that farmers are prosperous as well as cheap food prices, so that they can both," Anies said in his oration.

Anies expressed concern about the cheap price of unhulled rice while the price of rice was expensive, but the farmers did not accept it.

"Then where do you go? The rice is cheap but the rice is expensive, yes there is a mafia, there is a hoarder tengkulak, can they be left alone? Is that allowed to continue?" Anies asked.

The Tegal community who packed the field answered together Anies' question.

"What should you do? It should be eradicated? What is the need? Change. God willing, we will move the change," he said.

Meanwhile, Muhaimin Iskandar, or Gus Imin, also emphasized the importance of the state to pay more attention to the agricultural sector, especially in the last 10 years that farmers have experienced difficulties, one of which is access to fertilizer.

"For decades our farmers have been ignored, this should not be continued, we need change," said Gus Imin.

In addition, according to him, mafia is not only in the trading system of agricultural products, the mafia also exists in the distribution of fertilizers that make fertilizers rare and difficult for farmers to access.

"It's difficult to eradicate, this is the cause of the fertilizer mafia, in the future this is what we need to eradicate, we eradicate the fertilizer mafia to the roots," said Gus Imin.