AGRICULTURE

JAKARTA, 5/8 - FINANCIAL CARD. Minister of Agriculture, Anton Apriyanto, submitted an opinion when being a speaker on a national seminar entitled the Reconstruction of Food Trade, in Jakarta, Tuesday (5/8). The food demand, especially rice increases along the increasing number of populations at an average rate of 1.3% per year with a consumis figure of rice per capita 139kg/capita/th, while the effort of food diversification is still difficult to realize one of them due to environmental pollution and land degradation. ANTARA/Andika Wahyu/hp/08.