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RI HAS 5.6 MILLION TONS OF RICE SURPLUS
Bogor, W Java, Indonesia, Sept 4 (ANTARA) - National rice stocks are secure until the end of the year and are estimated to have a surplus of f5 percent or about 5.6 million tons, a minister said.
Agriculture Minister Suswono said here on Saturday he was optimistic that the need for rice would be met until the end of 2010.
"We will hopefully have rice stock surplus this year," the minister said during a doctorate degree proceeding at the Bogor Institute of Agriculture.
He said that the national rice stocks had the potential to be in surplus of 5.6 million tons or about 15 percent.
The need for rice this year is estimated to reach 43 tons. The agriculture ministry predicted the country's rice need would reach 34 million tons while its production was estimated at 39 million tons.
"If there is no natural disturbance such as the El Nino or the La Nina or pests, we will have a surplus of 5.6 million tons," he repeated.
The minister said earlier that the rice surplus was helped by the realization of rice fields covering 12.257 million hectares in July, a minister said.
"In the next two months, the area of paddy field is still going to increase," Agriculture Minister Suswono said.
Assuming that water supply during the wet dry season was enough the government believed the target of planting rice on 664 thousand hectares in August and 526 hectares in September could be achieved, he said.
The figures would bring the total area of rice fields this year to 13.45 million hectares with the area of rice harvests projected at 13.08 million hectares, he said.
If the average productivity of rice field reached 5.132 tons per hectare, rice production would reach 67.15 million tons of dry unhusked rice, a 3.08 percent increase compared to last year, he said.
The increase was far higher than the rice consumption growth target of 1.34 percent for 2010, he said.*
Agriculture Minister Suswono said here on Saturday he was optimistic that the need for rice would be met until the end of 2010.
"We will hopefully have rice stock surplus this year," the minister said during a doctorate degree proceeding at the Bogor Institute of Agriculture.
He said that the national rice stocks had the potential to be in surplus of 5.6 million tons or about 15 percent.
The need for rice this year is estimated to reach 43 tons. The agriculture ministry predicted the country's rice need would reach 34 million tons while its production was estimated at 39 million tons.
"If there is no natural disturbance such as the El Nino or the La Nina or pests, we will have a surplus of 5.6 million tons," he repeated.
The minister said earlier that the rice surplus was helped by the realization of rice fields covering 12.257 million hectares in July, a minister said.
"In the next two months, the area of paddy field is still going to increase," Agriculture Minister Suswono said.
Assuming that water supply during the wet dry season was enough the government believed the target of planting rice on 664 thousand hectares in August and 526 hectares in September could be achieved, he said.
The figures would bring the total area of rice fields this year to 13.45 million hectares with the area of rice harvests projected at 13.08 million hectares, he said.
If the average productivity of rice field reached 5.132 tons per hectare, rice production would reach 67.15 million tons of dry unhusked rice, a 3.08 percent increase compared to last year, he said.
The increase was far higher than the rice consumption growth target of 1.34 percent for 2010, he said.*
