INDONESIA SHOULD CREATE NEW LIVESTOCK ZONES TO REALISE BEEF CATTLE SELF-SUFFICIENCY GOAL
May 1st, 2017
THE INDONESIAN government needs to establish new livestock production zones as it proactively tries to boost the country’s national meat production and consumption through encouraging the import of livestock, and temporarily of frozen beef, the country’s executive director of the Indonesian Meat Importers Association has said. Thomas Sembiring, head of Aspidi (Asosiasi Pengusaha Importir Daging Indonesia), told GlobalMeatNews that existing rearing and production locations are dwindling in size: “In the next 10 years, our cattle production centres will ...
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