Subscribe OthersState-owned forestry company PT Inhutani and its South Korean partner known here as PT SL Agro Industry plans to set up a wood pellet production facility this year.
State Minister of State Owned Enterprises Dahlan Iskan has instructed state-owned forest management companies Perum Perhutani and PT Inhutani to set up sago processing facility in Papua.
Corn farmers in North Sumatra urged the government to maintain the import ban until March or April as the current harvest will last until that month.
The government projected revenue from export of plantation commodities this year to increase by about 26 percent on higher price and export volume.
The government aims to push the country to gradually reduce wheat import by around 20 percent from now until 2014, Minister of Agriculture Suswono said.
