Antara News, Friday, March 12, 2010 14:12 WIB
Jakarta (ANTARA News) - Indonesia is lagging far behind other Asian countries in agribusiness development, Vice President Boediono said here Friday.
"Compared with other Asian countries such as Thailand, our agribusiness sector is still st a low level of development," Boediono said in remarks to officially open "Agrinex International Expo 2010" here on Friday.
The vice president said that compared with other countries, the agribusiness sector in Indonesia had yet to integrate with other sectors to support national development.
"In other countries, the agribusiness sector has become one with the industrial and services sectors; agriculture, fisheries, and animal husbandry sectors have become one with the industrial and services sectors while in our country there is no inter-linkage among these sectors," the vice president said.
But he added Indonesia had great agribusiness potentials and the capability to catch up with the other countries.
"Our agribusiness potentials are extraordinarily big, even the biggest in Southeast Asia and Asia. We are the world`s largest producer of palm oil, rubber, and rice. We are also the largest producer of cacao, coffee, tea, volatile oils, and fish. And all of these are the basis for our agribusiness development to catch up with other countries," Boediono said.
The vice president said Indonesia was left behind in agribusiness development because business players prioritized short-term profits by selling agricultural goods as raw materials.
"In fact we still have a lot of added value from the agribusiness products and this means we have great potentials to catch up with other countries," Boediono said.
He said the government had improved its policies to support the agribusiness sector through infrastructure and human resources development.
After opening the exhibition, the vice president , accompanied by Maritime Affairs and Fisheries Minister Fadel Muhammad, visited a number of stands displaying agribusiness products.
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