Import Measures Bring Grief to Farmers
Farmers, who are the main backbone of domestic crop production, are being marginalized. They are struggling to survive.
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Sindanglaut Sugar Factory Gate, Cirebon Regency, West Java, Friday (10/5/2019). The sugarcane milling period will begin next June 20. However, farmers are worried because the mill will move to another factory, thus increasing the transportation cost.
Import policy for sugar, rice and salt dealt blow to farmers with them desperately grappling for survival.
On Friday morning (9/4/2021), the PG Sindanglaut sugar refinery in Cirebon, West Java, looked deserted. Unusually there were no trucks coming and going. A few people walked out of the refinery plant and greeted Mamat (59). He was standing in front, his mind going back to the past when the sugar industry enjoyed a heyday.