Indonesia secures one million tonnes in rice imports for 2024


JAKARTA: Indonesia has imported 650,000 metric tonnes of rice and signed import contracts for another 350,000 tonnes for 2024, the head of the State Food Procurement agency (Bulog) said on Tuesday (April 2).

Of the 1 million tonnes agreed for importation, more than half would come from Vietnam and the rest from Thailand, Pakistan, and Cambodia, Bulog's chief executive Bayu Krisnamurthi told reporters.

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