Food prices in Indonesia forecast to remain high through year-end

A farmer with buckets walking to fetch water from an artificial groundwater reservoir in the middle of a dry rice field at Rawa Bogo village, Bogor district of West Java in Indonesia. - Photo: Xinhua

JAKARTA (Vietnam News/ANN): Food prices are expected to remain high for the rest of the year as the El Niño weather phenomenon affects production in Indonesia and other countries, the National Food Agency (Bapanas) has announced.

Bapanas head Arief Prasetyo Adi said the Indonesian government will continue its efforts to control food prices, including by securing further imports of three particularly challenged commodities namely rice, corn and sugar.