This serves as an early warning for food problems so that anticipatory steps can be properly implemented in maintaining stability of food supply and prices.

The Head of BKP Food Distribution and Reserve Center, Risfaheri, ensured that supply of basic necessities for facing fasting month and ahead of Lebaran 2021 was in a safe condition and stable prices.

“Prices and supply of strategic staple foods are relatively safe. It can be seen in two traditional markets in Bogor, to be precise in Suryakencana and Kebun Kembang” said Risfaheri while monitoring prices and strategic food supply, Saturday (01/05/2021).

He added, not only visiting 2 markets, BKP also monitors prices and food supply directly in various markets in Greater Jakarta area, namely Tanah Tinggi Tangerang Main Market, South Tangerang Ciputat Market, Depok Jaya Market, Cibitung Main Market, Kranggan Market and Kranji Market. Bekasi.

“Market conditions in city of Bogor look busy, indicating that economic and social economic movements are quite good in midst of pandemic, as well as in other markets,” he said.

From results of monitoring, it was found that food supply was in sufficient condition and prices tended to be stable. The price of medium rice ranges from Rp. 8,100 – 10,500 / kg (HET Rp. 9,450 / kg) while premium rice is in range of Rp. 11,500 – 14,000 / kg (HET IDR 12,800 / kg) with a stock range of 5-7 tons / retailer. Sugar prices in market range from IDR 12,500 – 14,000 / kg (HAP IDR 12,500 / kg) and cooking oil there is a slight increase in range of IDR 13,000 – 15,000 / kg (HAP IDR 11,000 / lt; IDR 11,790 / kg) with a stock range of 100-150 liters / retailer.

Red Chili Peppers (CRM) and Curly Red Chili (CMK) are relatively stable, CRM price is Rp 60,000 / kg and CMK price ranges from Rp 22,000 – 30,000 / kg. Meanwhile, for price of onions Rp.26,000-30,000 (HAP Rp.32,000 / kg) and garlic Rp.24,000-30,000 / kg, this price is observed to have decreased compared to last week. According to him, Shallots are currently entering beginning of harvest season and stock of garlic is sufficient until next June.

Responding to price of cooking oil and sugar above HAP (Reference Price for Sales at consumers / Permendag 7/2020) and some medium and premium rice that exceed HET, Risfaheri reminded traders to pay attention to HAP and HET that have been issued by government.

“We note that stock of three food commodities is in a safe and surplus condition, so there is no reason for an unreasonable price increase, even though demand for this industry will increase. For this reason, we hope that Food Task Force can supervise it,” said Risfaheri.

Similar conditions also occur in Bekasi city market. The price of chicken meat in Bekasi has dropped from IDR 40,000 / kg to IDR 38,000 / kg, beef from IDR 130,000 / kg down to IDR 120,000 / kg, eggs from IDR 24,000 / kg down to IDR 22,000 / kg (HAP IDR 24,000 / kg), medium rice is stable at IDR 9,000 / kg, granulated sugar IDR 12,500 / kg, cooking oil IDR 14,500-15,000 / kg, while in Bogor, beef is IDR 130,000 / kg and eggs IDR 23,000 / kg.

“People do not need to worry about food price fluctuations that occur especially ahead of Eid al-Fitr. An increase of about 10% from reference price is still reasonable in facing Eid, because traders certainly need more income to get to Eid,” said Risfaheri.

To help community, Food Security Agency has provided sufficient stocks of strategic staple food at Mitra Tani Market / Toko Tani Indonesia Center in Jakarta, Bogor and Depok at prices that are cheaper than market prices.

People can not only shop directly, but also through online via gofood, grabmart, Bukalapak and PasTani, even to face Ramadan and Eid al-Fitr PMT provides free postage services. Not only that, PMT also held cheap food titles in residential centers in Jabodetabek area while still paying attention to Covid Health Prokes19.

The Head of BKP of Ministry of Agriculture, Agung Hendriadi, has also asked all regional food offices to continue to maintain stability of food supply and prices through various actions, including holding Cheap Food Awards intensively in their respective regions.

For areas experiencing a shortage of supply, Food Security Agency also provides transportation costs assistance from areas of surplus that are cheaper to areas of deficit experiencing extreme price increases, in an effort to maintain stability of food supply and prices throughout region.

Previously, Minister of Agriculture, Syahrul Yasin Limpo, stated that availability of foodstuffs prior to Eid Al-Fitr 1442 Hijriyah was sufficient to meet people needs with controlled food prices. The availability of food in 12 main commodities is currently in a safe condition.

“So if availability of food for 12 basic food commodities, president really asked that it be something that is available under control in month of Ramadan until Eid Al-Fitr,” said Minister of Agriculture SYL.

The joint rice harvest is an implementation of an inter-regional cooperation program, namely between DKI Jakarta Provincial Government and Cilacap Regency Government in order to maintain rice stocks in Jakarta.

The cooperation to supply rice stocks was carried out by Sumber Makmur Farmer Group (Gapoktan), Cilacap Regency, and PT Food Station Tjipinang Jaya, which is a regional-owned enterprise (BUMD) DKI Jakarta.

When holding a press conference after harvest, DKI Jakarta Governor Anies Baswedan said he was working with Cilacap Regency Government in order to jointly provide rice for people in Jakarta.

According to him, this cooperation benefits all parties because it cuts chain of rice trading system, so that farmers can get a better selling price.

“On other hand, people in Jakarta will be able to get rice that is more affordable,” he said, quoting antaranews.com

He said that this harvest could ensure supply certainty as well as have consequences for price stability.

Thus, inflation, which is often influenced by price of rice, can become more affordable in Jakarta.

“With this program, it can provide certainty of supply for residents in DKI Jakarta and for farmers in Cilacap who can get benefits, especially from aspect of price,” he said.

Anies also expressed his gratitude to Regent of Cilacap, Tatto Suwarto Pamuji, for providing support in this cooperation, so that it can increase from year to year.

In this case, this cooperation has been established since 2019 with a land area of ​​250 hectares, then increased to 500 hectares in 2020, and then in 2021 an area of ​​1,000 hectares.

“What we saw earlier is a sign that we in Indonesia have extraordinary resources, so that God willing, we can achieve food security, especially in DKI Jakarta,” he said.

According to him, collaboration between DKI Jakarta Provincial Government and Cilacap Regency Government will continue to develop, so that people of Jakarta do not have to worry about availability of rice supplies.

Meanwhile, Cilacap Regent Tatto Suwarto Pamuji said cooperation would be a challenge for Gapoktan and motivate farmers in Cilacap Regency to be active in farming.

“What happens if farmers strike, farmers don’t want to anymore. Well, those spirits motivate Cilacap Regency to become a national granary,” he said.

“The processing of this food estate land is almost 90 percent more, processing up to building beds is up to 70 percent. This December, God willing, installation of mulch and planting will be 100 percent complete, it will not take long to move more people and of course in accordance with The existing target is January, God willing, planting has been completed,” said Minister of Agriculture Syahrul when being interviewed after visiting location of food estate in Ria-Ria Village, Pollung District, Humbahas Regency, Friday (18/12/20).

Minister of Agriculture Syahrul said food storage area of ​​Humbahas Regency is development of agricultural land based on horticulture as main commodity. There are 3 commodities that will be developed in Humbahas food estate area, including potatoes, shallots and garlic.

“We are just waiting for how to cultivate and guard so that we can harvest within planned time,” said Minister of Agriculture.

On same occasion, Coordinating Minister for Maritime Affairs and Investment Luhut Binsar Pandjaitan said that progress of working on food estate land is very significant. In next four years, North Sumatra food estate land will be expanded to 30,000 hectares and horticultural planting will be developed.

In 2020, target to develop Humbahas food estate area of ​​1,000 hectares (ha) consists of an area of ​​215 ha from State Budget of Ministry of Agriculture (Ministry of Agriculture) while area of ​​785 ha is managed by private sector.

“This is first time in Indonesia that there are 215 hectares planted with potatoes, garlic and onions. From data that has been reported by Head of Balitbang, Ministry of Agriculture, results are very good,”.

Coordinating Minister Luhut said food estate development area would be a model for other regions so that in future shortcomings found in process of cultivating, cultivating, harvesting and post-harvesting will be improvements in other areas.

“So if this goes on, Pak Syahrul Limpo plan is only 215 hectares, there will be 1000 hectares, a total of 30,000 hectares, so this is current model. I think we learn from shortcomings here to fix them later in other places,” said Luhut.

Coordinating Minister Luhut also revealed that currently government is looking at other highlands where a food estate area can be developed. For example, on island of Sulawesi or Java, to be able to develop agriculture and improve welfare of surrounding population.

“In Sulawesi there is also an altitude of 1000-1200 land like this. We will build it again or later in Java, maybe 500 or 1000 hectares like this, we will make a model like this again, so that our horticultural self-sufficiency can also be finished in next 5 years,” said Luhut. .

In addition, Luhut emphasized that food estate area does not disturb forest environment. Commodities are planted on land that is not planted with trees, so that forest is well preserved. To keep land from landslide, it will also be planted with macadamia nuts, coffee and other perennials.

“The forests will not be cut into lands where there are no trees, bushes, which we will make land. So environment will be maintained,”

Here there are potatoes, garlic and forest will remain. The head of Balitbang also planted macadamia trees, coffee, and tree crops so that even though slope is 15 degrees, we can protect it so that there are no landslides,” he concluded.

“Commission IV of Indonesian House of Representatives hereby approves Budget Ceiling for Ministry of Agriculture of Rp. 21.83 trillion,” said Deputy Chairman of Commission IV DRP RI, Dedi Mulyadi, Monday, September 21, 2020.

Dedi explained that composition of budget is divided per Echelon which includes Secretariat General (Sekjen) of Rp 1.7 trillion. The Inspectorate General (Irjen) of Rp. 164 billion. The Directorate General of Food Crops Rp 4.91 trillion and Directorate General of Horticulture Rp 1.14 trillion.

Then there is also a budget at Directorate General of Plantation which reaches IDR 1.61 trillion, Directorate General of Animal Husbandry and Animal Health IDR 2.13 trillion, Directorate General of Agricultural Infrastructure and Facilities IDR 5.27 trillion, Food Security Agency IDR 767 billion, Quarantine Agency. Agriculture as much as IDR 1.11 trillion, Agricultural Research and Development Agency IDR 1.67 trillion, and Agricultural Extension and Human Resources Development Agency IDR 1.33 trillion.

Regarding this, Minister of Agriculture (Mentan) Syahrul Yasin Limpo said that work focus of Ministry of Agriculture includes national work priorities, namely strengthening economic resilience for quality and equitable growth.

In addition, he said, there are two other priority programs that are interrelated with main priorities such as increasing availability of access and quality of food consumption as well as increasing added value, employment, investment in real deposits and industrialization.

“We have been able to achieve a lot from this time, for that I hope Ministry of Agriculture and Commission IV will continue to work together to advance Indonesia agricultural sector,” he said.

In same place, Member of Commission IV DPR RI, Suhardi Duka, assessed that approved budget could be implemented properly. This, said Suhardi, can be seen from increase in Farmers Exchange Rate (NTP) from year to year which has a direct impact on welfare of Indonesian farmers.

“This budget has been given for benefit of farmers, for that we have to make sure that farmers are no longer in trouble. We have to give whatever farmers need because this is related to national interest,” he concluded. (*)

The efforts made by Gotong Royong RPO are in line with direction of Minister of Agriculture (Mentan) Syahrul Yasin Limpo. The Minister of Agriculture previously encouraged all levels of Ministry of Agriculture and farmers to strive to boost productivity of agricultural commodities, including plantations, so that they have value-added quality and are competitive in world market.

According to activist of RPO Gotong Royong, Slamet, efforts to attach sarongs to cocoa pods are still being carried out despite current Covid 19 pandemic. Of course, efforts to protect cocoa plants are carried out by implementing health protocols. “In midst of this pandemic, we are still moving. “Wow, we are not only ones who want to be healthy, tho, cocoa must also be healthy, so OPT must be eradicated, if we just let cocoa die, we will get dizzy, even sick,” said Slamet in his written statement, Monday (21/9) .

Meanwhile, Cocoa Farmer Assistance Team, Gusti said that pest that attacks cocoa in surrounding area is Cocoa Pod Borer (CPB) pest. Therefore, his party implements installation of a sarong on cocoa pods. “If not controlled, CPB larvae can cause cocoa pods to stick together, causing quality and quantity of fruit production to decrease by up to 70%. We do sarong so that caterpillars can’t get into fruit, we just have to wear a mask, cocoa becomes masked too, “he said.

This method of sarcasm is done when fruit is very young, nipple is approximately 8 cm in size. Armed with simple equipment consisting of a rubber band, a pipe pipe, and plastic, this method of sarcasm can prevent CPBP imago from laying eggs on pods so that larvae will not bore into fruit. The two ends of plastic are perforated so that air can be exchanged and not humid.

According to him, this method is one of components of Integrated Pest Management (IPM) which tends to be environmentally friendly because it does not cause chemical residues, resurgence and pest resistance, and is very easy to do. The use of plastic can be repeated in next fruit season.

By installing sarongs on cocoa pods, Slamet said that from 1 hectare of land more than 1 ton of cocoa can be produced. The price is also quite good, Rp. 38,000 for fermented cocoa and Rp. 20,000 for non-fermented ones.

He hopes that this collaboration with government will continue and be improved in building farmer independence. With spirit of mutual cooperation, controlling cocoa health and maintaining personal health can be done simultaneously. (*)

According to Teten, movement has considerable economic power because it involves all levels of society.

“Therefore, I am preparing a program to strengthen food stalls that will become a trade chain for our food distribution with traditional food stalls,” Teten said after meeting Minister of Agriculture (Mentan) Syahrul Yasin Limpo in his office on Friday, July 24, 2020.

Technically, Teten said that his party would prepare everything from downstream side. While equipment from upstream side will be prepared by Ministry of Agriculture.

For example, he said, KUKM has prepared thousands of food stalls in Jabodetabek which are ready to market agricultural products.

“So we have prepared thousands of stalls in Jabotabek that are connected through application. I have seen practice including inventory management. It means that once there is a need for groceries, goods will automatically be input to digital data,” he said.

Teten said, in broad outline two Ministries will work together to run all visions of President Joko Widodo.

The cooperation includes corporatization of farmers who have an integrated workflow from smallholders to large scale cooperatives.

“We will consolidate individual farmers who work on narrow land, then operate in form of large-scale cooperatives. We need help of Ministry of Agriculture because he has many farmer groups,” he said.

The Minister of Agriculture (Mentan) Syahrul Yasin Limpo welcomed collaboration between two Ministries.

He said, agricultural sector is a definite choice because it is a daily necessity. On other hand, agriculture is also great power of an agrarian country.

“This is what we are responding to between Ministry of Agriculture and Ministry of Cooperatives. More specifically, we will certainly prepare activities upstream in increasing agricultural productivity, especially in horticulture subsector, food crops plantations and livestock,” he said.

Minister of Agriculture hopes, with this cooperation price of basic food stays in a stable condition and is able to break chains that are too large.

“So of course market reach of this commodity can be better can be more effective. Of course we hope to be able to break chain that is too large so that price and price stability of agricultural commodities can we guarantee better,” he concluded. (*)