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President Joko Widodo visited the 2018 Asian Agriculture and Food Forum (ASAFF) exhibition held at the Jakarta Convention Center (JCC). This exhibition is part of a series of ASAFF held by the Association of Indonesian Farmers (HKTI) on June 28-July 1, 2018.

Arriving at JCC at around 14.11 WIB, the President, wearing a white shirt and black pants, was greeted by Minister of Agriculture Amran Sulaiman and Chief of Staff of the Moeldoko Presidency. The three then immediately went in to take a look at the exhibition, Sunday (1/7/2018).

Not only agricultural commodities, in ASAFF exhibition themed "Transforming Challenges into Opportunities: Agricultural Innovation and Food Security" is also exhibited various innovations in agriculture.

The President also vsited the stands of modern agricultural tools ranging from drones to Controlled Atmosphere Storage (CAS) or storage machines that could store fresh food for up to six months.

Related to this innovation, the Minister of Agriculture Amran Sulaiman mentioned that innovation could be the key to success in agriculture, such as the achievement of food self-sufficiency.

"Food self-sufficiency can happen, even food sovereignty will occur when we encourage and develop our innovations. The key to success in agriculture should encourage innovation from seeds to post-harvest processing," the Agriculture Minister told the media.

In line with the Minister of Agriculture, Chief of Staff of the President who is also Chairman of HKTI Moeldoko said that countries that have a level of progress in agriculture must have a very high innovation.

According to him, Indonesia's agriculture can be more developed with a technology approach that is cultivated.

"Our society is almost partially still using the traditional approach. The innovations here we take, we communicate with the entrepreneurs so that later all the development of products that can be developed and used by farmers, "said Moeldoko. (KBRN/Rsp/HF/AHM)