It Turns Out That This Is The Reason Why Bulog Imports 1 Million Tons Of Rice Next Year

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YOGYAKARTA President Director of Perum Bulog Budi Waseso said that the government will import 1 million tons of rice next year. Imports of basic food reserves will be directly from China.

"If it is needed, the President will assign Bulog back to 1 million tons. However, we will take the record of 1 million tons from China," said Budi Waseso at the Bulog Building in Gunung Malang, Klandasan Ilir, Balikpapan City, East Kalimantan, Saturday, September 23, 2023, quoted by VOI.

The man who is familiarly called Buwas added that the Indonesian government through President Joko Widodo together with Chinese President XI Jinping had signed a rice procurement work contract of 1 million tons.

Budi said China is one of the countries ready to export its rice to Indonesia.

"So if there is an assignment of 1 million tons of rice, it will definitely be imported from China, because China has prepared 1 million tons. This means we will not take rice from Myanmar or Vietnam," explained Budi.

So, what is the reason why Bulog imports 1 million tons of rice next year? Check out the following information.

For information, the policy of importing 1 million tons of rice in 2024 is a continuation of the government's policy of importing 2 million tons of rice this year.

The following are a number of reasons why Perum Bulog imported 1 million tons of rice in 2024.

Buwas said that the import of 1 million tons of rice from China was carried out because domestic rice production had decreased due to weather conditions.

'No one is wrong, because we can't fight nature. Yesterday, the beginning of the year was due to the problem of flooding, many eventually failed to harvest so the production was still lacking. Today there is El Nino, the drought will certainly also affect the productivity of the rice fields," said Buwas.

In addition to anticipating the postponement of the main harvest schedule, Budi said that rice imports were carried out to anticipate the impact of drought, the impact of which is predicted to continue next year.

"The weather incidents, floods, crop failures everywhere are lacking in the production of our rice, like it or not, we will start (rice imports). We import starting last year, at the end of 2022," said Buwas.

He said that the rice import policy was taken because the government did not want to be late in making decisions.

"The prediction (drought) is not only this year. Later the BMKG will predict that if this turns out to be vulnerable (weather conditions), the President will definitely want to assign it again, quickly take anticipatory steps," said Buwas.

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