Bulog Make Sure The Rice Stock Is Sufficient Until The End Of The Year, Amounting To 600,000 Tons

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PURWOKERTO - Director of Human Capital Perum Bulog Purnomo Sinar Hadi ensured that rice stocks in all Bulog warehouses nationally were still sufficient until the end of 2022.

"Bulog rice stock until the end of the year is sufficient because our current position is 600,000 tons," he said after being a seminar speaker at the Faculty of Economics and Business, Jenderal Sudirman University (Unsoed) Purwokerto, Banyumas Regency, Central Java, Thursday.

He admitted that currently the price of rice in the market is rising, making the Availability of Supply and Price Stabilization (KPSH) of rice distributed by Bulog very high.

Based on data several years earlier, he said, the average rice demand in a year reached around 600,000 to 700,000 tons but is now increasing.

"This is indeed an anomaly, many agricultural land is affected by disasters and the price has soared. Once the price has soared, indeed for the last two months, we have distributed KPSH quite massively through market operations," said Purnomo.

From one side, he said, his party maintains resilience and availability, including how to keep prices from being too high.

Asked about the rice import plan, he said it was a government policy, while Bulog was the operator.

"So, depending on the government's assignment, whether you want to assign it or not. If you assign it, it will be implemented, if the import policy is all in the government," he said.