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The Ministry of Agriculture ensures that Indonesia is ready to face the threat of a world food crisis. This is evident from the balance sheet conditions of 12 basic commodities which are still in the conducive category.

"Our food balance shows that we are in a conducive condition," said the Head of the Public Relations and Public Information Bureau of the Ministry of Catering, in a Webinar entitled Talking About Latest Agriculture (NGOPI) with Bako Humas, Wednesday (10/8/2022).

Boga said that almost all of Indonesia's staple food commodities can be produced domestically. In fact, the stock is in a surplus condition until 2022 at this time.

For example, a surplus of 7.5 million tons of rice, up to 2.8 million tons of corn. However, said Boga, there are three basic ingredients, such as garlic, sugar, and beef that still require import substitution.

"Except for the red, red means that we still need substitution from imports," he said.

He detailed, of the three basic ingredients, garlic is the most in need of imports from China. This is because the stock is not enough to meet domestic needs.

The total shortage reached 366,900 tons. So the increase in the production of this commodity needs to be increased.

Meanwhile, for consumption sugar, as much as 80-90 percent can be produced domestically. Then 60-70 percent of meat has also been able to be met from domestic production.

"Approximately the condition of our food balance is like this," he said.

Furthermore, he invites farmers to be optimistic in facing the current food conditions in the world. Most importantly, Indonesia must continue to produce as usual.

"So we need to be optimistic and we at the Ministry of Agriculture as a sector that is responsible for the economy, especially agriculture in general convey that we need to be optimistic. Our farmers are ready to face current food, world conditions and most importantly we continue to produce normally," he said, adding. (RRI)