What is the National Corn Production and Import Volume?
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The Ministry of Agriculture (Kementan) has rejected the Ministry of Trade's proposed plan to import corn. Kementan argued that current national corn production is stable despite the drought. According to Kementan data, corn production has increased every year. In 2018, national corn production increased by 3.91% to 30 million tons, compared to 28.9 million tons in 2017.
As quoted from the Kementan website, Minister of Agriculture Amran Sulaiman provided 2 tons of rice seeds and 75 tons of corn seeds to farmers. These seeds are expected to increase national rice and corn production. The target for corn production in 2019 is 33 million tons, a 9.8% increase from the previous year.
Meanwhile, the volume of corn imports to Indonesia since 2016 has been approximately 1 million tons. In that year, corn imports saw the largest decrease, falling by 65.12% to 1.1 million tons compared to 3.2 million tons in 2015. However, in 2018, corn imports to Indonesia increased by 42.46% to 737,200 tons from 517,500 tons in 2017.
(Read Databoks: From Where Does Indonesia Import Corn?)
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