Entering this year’s main harvest season, rice farmers in West Java and Central Java are facing the dual prospects of crop failure and financial loss from high production costs.

The efforts of the State Logistics Agency to procure unhulled rice from farmers are still hampered by high prices. The price of unhulled rice in a number of areas has begun to fall with the expansion of harvest areas.

Farmers in a number of areas in Java are threatened with crop failure because their rice fields were flooded. This situation occurs when farmers have to bear the increase in production costs and selling price pressures.

Interest rate subsidies to build government food reserves show the seriousness of the government in handling food with a new approach.

Achmad Darisman has encouraged over 1,400 farmers to grow various perennial plants, especially fruit trees, on hundreds of hectares of land.

Village funds have transformed the face of Kandar village on Selaru Island, Tanimbar Islands regency, Maluku.

Fertilizer problems in several regions have not subsided.

President Joko Widodo has repeatedly expressed his concern about the possibility of a food crisis in Indonesia as an impact of the Covid-19 health crisis, which no one knows when it might end.