JAKARTA – The government tries its best to reduce cow imports. One way to do is by running the palm oil – cow integrated programme. Furthermore, the needs of meat is increasing. “We will study more about the programme which will reduce the import and in the same time, it could increase the farmers’ income,” Head of Badan Koordinasi Penanaman Modal (BKPM), Franky Sibarani said, Tuesday (6/1), as written in Joss Today. 

 

He explained, Indonesia’s trade balance in the cow sector in 2009 until 2013 was negative though the graphic was a little bit deficit since 2011. Though the import was slightly increasing, the export was also increasing more. But the programme has many problems to solve. Vice Chairman of Industrial Chambers, Yan Permata Adoe said, one of the problem is about the field to breed the cows.

 

In addition, palm oil and cows are two different products and that is why, the government should pay attention to make and publish the policies which the two could run in the same time. “It is very potential to run so there will be good integrated concepts. But it is also about the investment and the owners’ will to run it,” he said. (T3)