date:Jul 17, 2014
Indonesian agriculture ministry forecast the country's rice outputs (hulled rice production) to be surplus by 4.2 million ton this year despite a decline in production of un-hulled rice, a senior official said here on Wednesday.
This is the country's first of its three forecasts of rice production in a year, which expected the production of the un- hulled rice was estimated at 69.871 million ton in 2014, scaling down from 71.28 million ton in 2013, said Haryono, acting director general at the m