SALT HARVEST

Farmers harvest salts on their land in Talise Cultivator, Palu, Central Sulawesi, Wednesday (7/5). The hot air temperature reaches 37 to 38 degrees of centigrade that houses the Palu City accelerates the harvest period of the salt in the place and resulting in the production of salts in the place is abundant than usual. While the data of the Ministry of Marine Affairs and Fisheries (KKP) stated the needs of salt consumption in Indonesia reached 1.5 million tons per year so that the strengthening of the people's salt production base, one of them through the People's Salt Business Empowerment program.ANTARA PHOTO/Mohamad Hamzah/ed/pd/14.