January 11, 2013

Indonesia's Ministry of Agriculture plans to operate a new project concerning subsidies for dairy cattle feed in 2013.

The Director General of Livestock and Animal Health of Indonesia's Ministry of Agriculture, Syukur Iwantoro said, "The feed subsidy will be tested on 100 groups of dairy farmers in Java: 40 groups in West Java, 20 groups in Central Java and 40 groups in East Java. The feed subsidy is aimed at improving the quality of dairy cattle feed so that milk production will increase."

Iwantoro added, "How much the feed subsidy will be is currently being calculated and will be proposed to the House of Representatives."

The chairman of Indonesia's Milk Cooperative Association, Dedi Setiadi appreciates the pilot scheme, because it will help the dairy farmers with the high price of raw material feed.

Currently, the production of milk per day in Indonesia reached 1.6 million tonnes.