REPUBLIKA.CO.ID,  JAKARTA - The quota of beef import in 2013 tended to lower than that of 2012, the Director of Animal Husbandry at the Ministry of Agriculture, Syukur Iwantoro, said on Tuesday.

The import quota in 2012 is 20 percent from national demand. According to the study on national beef supply and demand, the quota of import could be as low as 14 percent in 2013.

Indonesia predictably will import 74,000 to 75,000 tonnes of beef. About 60 percent of them are calves while the remaining quota is frozen beef.

Iwantoro mentioned that national beef demand in 2013 would reach 500,000 tonnes. The number is based on calculation of Indonesian population and average of beef consumption, which is 2.2 kilograms per capita. 

"The supply is increasing, so is cow population," he said.

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