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BRIEFING - ASIA AGRIBUSINESS - JAN 1, 2009.
An executive briefing on agribusiness for Jan 1, 2009, prepared by Asia Pulse (http://www.asiapulse.com), the real-time, Asia-based wire with exclusive news, commercial intelligence and business opportunities.
INDONESIA ACHIEVES RICE SELF-SUFFICIENCY
MAKASSAR - Vice President Jusuf Kalla said Indonesia would not import rice in 2009 because its rice production target has been achieved.
"We will not import rice because we have a production surplus of two million tons from South Sulawesi as well as from rice producing provinces in Java," Kalla said at the launching of a training to increase rice production for sub-district heads, sub-district military chiefs and "Babinsa" (non-commissioned officers for village control) in the district of Maros in South Sulawesi.
PRT IMPROVES IRRIGATION IN KUNAR AFGHANISTAN
KABUL - The Konar Provincial Reconstruction Team is working with Afghans in Manawara District to restore an irrigation system that fell into disrepair during decades of war in Afghanistan.
The ancient Karez system consists of 12 wells and numerous aqueducts which use river water and underground spring water to irrigate crops in the area. Soviets bombed the irrigation system in the 1980s to prevent Afghan fighters from transporting weapons and ammunition through the tunnels. ...
- SOUTH SULAWESI'S EXPORTS DROP 55PCT TO US$1BLN.
- News wire article from: AsiaPulse News December 31, 2008 700+ words
MAKASSAR, South Sulawesi, Dec 31 Asia Pulse - South Sulawesi's exports in the January-September 2008 period...period a year earlier, an official said. The head of South Sulawesi's Trade and Industry Office, Amal Natsir, said...
- SOUTH SULAWESI TO SEND 451,612 INDONESIAN WORKERS ABROAD.
- News wire article from: AsiaPulse News October 13, 2008 700+ words
...MAKASSAR, S Sulawesi, Oct 13 Asia Pulse - South Sulawesi province will try its best...East and Europe in 2009, South Sulawesi Governor Syahrul Yasin Limpo...needed 222,624 workers from South Sulawesi, while Canada and the United...
- SOUTH SULAWESI TO HOST TOURISM MART IN SEPT 2008.
- News wire article from: AsiaPulse News October 3, 2007 700+ words
...MAKASSAR, S SULAWESI, Oct 3 Asia Pulse - South Sulawesi is ready to host an Indonesian...Pasaka, chairman of the South Sulawesi chapter of the Indonesian...in Bali late last week, South Sulawesi delegates lobbied foreign...
- SOUTH SULAWESI EARNS US$90.8 MLN FROM EXPORTS TO MALAYSIA.
- News wire article from: AsiaPulse News February 7, 2003 700+ words
...MAKASSAR, S Sulawesi, Feb 7 Asia Pulse - Indonesia's South Sulawesi province earned US$90...5 million," he said. South Sulawesi also exports processed wood...the main destination for South Sulawesi's export commodities...
- INDONESIA'S SOUTH SULAWESI TO HAVE POWER SURPLUS IN 2010.
- News wire article from: AsiaPulse News May 6, 2009 700+ words
MAKASSAR, May 6 Asia pulse - In 2010 Indonesia's South Sulawesi will have an electric energy surplus following...generation of state electricity company PT PLN in South Sulawesi. "South Sulawesi in 2010 will have an energy surplus. In September...
- DEATH TOLL OF SOUTH SULAWESI FLOOD RISES TO 195.
- News wire article from: ANT - LKBN ANTARA (Indonesia) June 22, 2006 700+ words
...according to data from the South Sulawesi administration's disaster task...relief aid started to come to South Sulawesi from various parties including...the impacts of the floods in South Sulawesi. (THROUGH ASIA PULSE)
- SOUTH SULAWESI OFFICIALS ASKED TO FLY CELEBES AIR.
- News wire article from: ANT - LKBN ANTARA (Indonesia) April 29, 2004 700+ words
...heads and other officials in South Sulawesi to fly Celebes Air when they...office here on Tuesday. The South Sulawesi provincial administration as...demand for transportation to South Sulawesi. (THROUGH ASIA PULSE)
- INDONESIA'S SOUTH SULAWESI MAY EXPORT RICE IN AUG-SEPT PERIOD.
- News wire article from: AsiaPulse News May 13, 2009 700+ words
MAKASSAR, May 13 Asia pulse - Planned rice exports from Indonesia's South Sulawesi`s may be realized...the rice produced in South Sulawesi," Head of the Regional...Makassar Tuesday. He said South Sulawesi will export its rice...
Source: HighBeam Research, BRIEFING - ASIA AGRIBUSINESS - JAN 1, 2009.