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AGRICULTURE MINISTRY DENIES INDONESIA'S FOOD RESILIENCE LOW.

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BOGOR, West Java, Feb 1 Asia Pulse - A senior Agriculture Ministry official has refuted the notion that Indonesia's food reslience is low, saying the country has several food crop varieties that provide resilience.

"Our food resilience is high. We have various food varieties which are carbohydrate sources that can replace rice if the country runs low on the staple," the ministry's secretary general, Dr Hasanuddin Ibrahim, said on the sidelines of a seminar on oil palm agribusiness here on Thursday.

He said if the government imports rice it is only to beef up stocks to the required level.

The problem being faced by Indonesia now is the people's low purchasing power and fluctuations in the prices of agricultural commodities in the world market.

He ...

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