RICE PRODUCTION INCREASED

A number of farmers grow rice in the rice fields of Warung Gunung, Lebak, Banten, Thursday (23/11). The Banten Provincial Agriculture Department recorded rice production to October 2017 reached 2.034 thousand tons of GKG (juana dry giling) or increased 30 percent of the production last year so that the target of special efforts (Upsus) Agriculture Ministry to realize rice swasembada in 2018 with the target production of padi 2.255 thousand tons of optimistic can be realized. ANTARA PHOTO/Asep Fathulrahman/pras/17