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Sat, 12/13/2008 - 08:01
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PLANTATION PRODUCT EXPORTS PREDICTED TO INCREASE 6.9 PERCENT
Jakarta, Dec 12 (ANTARA) - The Agriculture Ministry has predicted that Indonesia's exports from the plantation sector this year will increase by 6.9 percent from the figure in 2007.
Director General for Plantations Achmad Mangga Barani said here on Friday that the value of Indonesia's plantation product exports at the end of this year was estimated at US$17.94 billion.
The figure is bigger than the exports of the same commodity a year earlier which stood at US$16.78 billion, he said.
"The global economic crisis has weakened various national economic sectors, but the agricultural sector, including the plantation one, still could gain a positive growth," the director general said.
He said that the acreage and productivity of the plantation sector in Indonesia in 2008 increased by about 0.68 percent compared with the figure recorded last year.
"The positive growth is able to absorb farmers in villages which reach 17,753,447 in 2008," Barani said.
This figure is bigger than that in 2007 which was 17,383,595 farmers or 369,852 farmers' families.
On the occasion, the global financial crisis which was triggered by the financial crisis in the United States at the end of last September had caused impact on several plantation commodities, however.
The price of rubber and crude palm oil (CPO) which are Indonesia's main plantation commodities fell steeply by 50 percent.
The price of fresh oil palm fruit bunches (TBS) fell from about Rp1,800 per kg to about Rp250-300 per kg, while that of rubber in the world market from US$2.8 per kg to US$1.6 per kg.
Director General for Plantations Achmad Mangga Barani said here on Friday that the value of Indonesia's plantation product exports at the end of this year was estimated at US$17.94 billion.
The figure is bigger than the exports of the same commodity a year earlier which stood at US$16.78 billion, he said.
"The global economic crisis has weakened various national economic sectors, but the agricultural sector, including the plantation one, still could gain a positive growth," the director general said.
He said that the acreage and productivity of the plantation sector in Indonesia in 2008 increased by about 0.68 percent compared with the figure recorded last year.
"The positive growth is able to absorb farmers in villages which reach 17,753,447 in 2008," Barani said.
This figure is bigger than that in 2007 which was 17,383,595 farmers or 369,852 farmers' families.
On the occasion, the global financial crisis which was triggered by the financial crisis in the United States at the end of last September had caused impact on several plantation commodities, however.
The price of rubber and crude palm oil (CPO) which are Indonesia's main plantation commodities fell steeply by 50 percent.
The price of fresh oil palm fruit bunches (TBS) fell from about Rp1,800 per kg to about Rp250-300 per kg, while that of rubber in the world market from US$2.8 per kg to US$1.6 per kg.
