Bali (28/9) -
The Agriculture Ministers Meeting (AMM) was held in Bali on September 27-29, 2022. This meeting was the pinnacle of the G20 Agriculture Working Group (AWG) series of meetings. For the whole day, exhibitions of agricultural products enlivened the AMM.
The Director of the Public Relations and Information Bureau of the Ministry of Agriculture (MoA), Kuntoro Boga Andri, said that the delegates had the opportunity to enjoy various agricultural products at the exhibition, like fruits and local food. He further explained that the exhibition also displayed products from many commodities, like food crops, horticulture, plantations, and livestock.
"Some products displayed include food crops, like organic rice, mocaf-based food, and shirataki rice; horticulture products, like local mangoes, snake fruits, bananas, mangosteen, and oranges; plantation products, like coconut, chocolate, tea; and livestock products, like veterinary drugs, maggots, shredded meat, and milk.
Kuntoro mentioned that the exhibition concept was in line with the AWG's theme this year, which is "Balancing Food Production and Trade to Fulfill Food for All". For the record, the AMM exhibition was organized based on the three main priority issue, the first being promoting resilient and sustainable agriculture and food systems.
"The second issue is promoting an open, fair, predictable and transparent agricultural trade to ensure food availability and affordability for all. The final issue is innovative agri-preneurship through digital agriculture to improve farmers' livelihood in rural areas," He elaborated.
He stated that the exhibition served as the right platform for Indonesia to showcase their agriculture sector. He hoped that everyone will see the potential that the Indonesia's agriculture sector has to produce various quality products.
"There is also a special booth for agricultural SMEs, where the delegates can observe many agricultural products, including shirataki rice, cricket flour, and other products that have entered the global market, like bird nest," explained Kuntoro.
In line with Kuntoro, the Director General of Food Crops, Suwandi, who was appointed as the responsible official for the AMM Mini Exhibition Display, said that a few themes were raised for the exhibition, including food resilience and local food promotion, as a substitute for imported food.
Furthermore, Suwandi mentioned that there are two steps to take in facing the threat of global food crisis, namely diversifying local food production and consumption, by increasing the production of sorghum, cassava, corn, soybeans and others.
"Currently, we are intensifying the expansion of sorghum production as local food that is similar to wheat. Sorghum is easy to cultivate and can be harvested up to three times in one planting," added Suwandi.
For information, the G20 AMM was attended physically and virtually by 188 foreign delegates; 168 delegates of whom attended the meeting in-person. The delegates were representatives of all G20 members, 7 invited countries, and 8 international organizations.
Bali (28/9) - The Agriculture Ministers Meeting (AMM) was held in Bali on September 27-29, 2022. This meeting was the pinnacle of the G20 Agriculture Working Group (AWG) series of meetings. For the whole day, exhibitions of agricultural products enlivened the AMM.
The Director of the Public Relations and Information Bureau of the Ministry of Agriculture (MoA), Kuntoro Boga Andri, said that the delegates had the opportunity to enjoy various agricultural products at the exhibition, like fruits and local food. He further explained that the exhibition also displayed products from many commodities, like food crops, horticulture, plantations, and livestock.
"Some products displayed include food crops, like organic rice, mocaf-based food, and shirataki rice; horticulture products, like local mangoes, snake fruits, bananas, mangosteen, and oranges; plantation products, like coconut, chocolate, tea; and livestock products, like veterinary drugs, maggots, shredded meat, and milk.
Kuntoro mentioned that the exhibition concept was in line with the AWG's theme this year, which is "Balancing Food Production and Trade to Fulfill Food for All". For the record, the AMM exhibition was organized based on the three main priority issue, the first being promoting resilient and sustainable agriculture and food systems.
"The second issue is promoting an open, fair, predictable and transparent agricultural trade to ensure food availability and affordability for all. The final issue is innovative agri-preneurship through digital agriculture to improve farmers' livelihood in rural areas," He elaborated.
He stated that the exhibition served as the right platform for Indonesia to showcase their agriculture sector. He hoped that everyone will see the potential that the Indonesia's agriculture sector has to produce various quality products.
"There is also a special booth for agricultural SMEs, where the delegates can observe many agricultural products, including shirataki rice, cricket flour, and other products that have entered the global market, like bird nest," explained Kuntoro.
In line with Kuntoro, the Director General of Food Crops, Suwandi, who was appointed as the responsible official for the AMM Mini Exhibition Display, said that a few themes were raised for the exhibition, including food resilience and local food promotion, as a substitute for imported food.
Furthermore, Suwandi mentioned that there are two steps to take in facing the threat of global food crisis, namely diversifying local food production and consumption, by increasing the production of sorghum, cassava, corn, soybeans and others.
"Currently, we are intensifying the expansion of sorghum production as local food that is similar to wheat. Sorghum is easy to cultivate and can be harvested up to three times in one planting," added Suwandi.
For information, the G20 AMM was attended physically and virtually by 188 foreign delegates; 168 delegates of whom attended the meeting in-person. The delegates were representatives of all G20 members, 7 invited countries, and 8 international organizations.
