REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, JAKARTA -- Agriculture Minister Suswono has reminded the nation of the food import pressures in 2014 that might threaten all efforts to increase agricultural production.

The minister made the remark here on Tuesday while addressing the opening of a national working meeting on the development of the agricultural sector in 2014.

Suswono stated that in 2014 the world's stocks of food commodities such as rice, maize, soybean and wheat were predicted to increase at a range of 1.4 percent for wheat and 10.1 percent for rice.

"Such an increase will ensure the world's food stocks in 2014. The food stocks will be relatively secure with reserves between 15.8 percent and 25.4 percent of the total production. It has the potential to drive down the price of food that will enter Indonesia," he stated during the function which were attended by all heads of husbandry and plantation services across Indonesia.

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