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The Agriculture Ministry will strategize to ensure national food security, during the dry season in 2020 by boosting food production in swampland areas. Fadjry Djufry, the ministry's head of the Agriculture Research and Development Agency, noted in a statement here on Saturday as quoted by Antara, that implementation of the new normal order, that coincidentally begin at the start of the dry season, has raised vigilance on the threat to national food adequacy. Djufry noted that the ministry had formulated numerous programs, to secure and intensify food production through measures, including an intensification program applied on paddy fields spanning 5.6 million hectares in the second planting season. Furthermore, the ministry will conduct the extraordinary intensification program in swampland areas and other alternative lands to step up production. Djufry believes the move will bolster rice production by seven percent as targeted, while concurrently helping to cope with the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on food security//ANT