INCREASED PRODUCTION OF JABAR RICE

The farmers began to shed the paddy field after eight months flooded by the Citanduy River embankment, in Ciganjeng Village, Pangandaran Regency, West Java, Tuesday (14/3). In order to increase the production of rice in West Java in 2017, the Ministry of Agriculture added the target of planting in October 2016-Maret 2017 to 1.552.041 hectares for West Java. Production of rice in Jabar in 2016 has contributed to making Indonesia exporting rice as much as 43.7 percent and no longer import rice. ANTARA PHOTO/Adeng Bustomi/kye/17