Indonesia is targeting a 5 percent increase in unmilled rice paddy output next year, which combined with a stock surplus in 2011, could cancel the need for imports in 2012, the agriculture minister said on Thursday. Late last month, the agriculture ministry told Reuters that Indonesian unmilled rice paddy output would total 70.6 million tonnes this year.
Last year, Southeast Asia's biggest economy produced 66.4 million tonnes of paddy, or 37.3 million of rice. Suswono said he was hopeful that state procurement agency Bulog would procure more rice domestically next year, and therefore will not need to import rice. Total rice consumption in 2010 was 33.1 million tonnes, Suswono said, adding that left a surplus of 4.2 million tonnes.
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