Perkembangan Produksi dan Konsumsi Pangan di Indonesia

Efforts to increase rice production to achieve self-sufficiency in rice have been done since 1968/9, in addition to developing Bimas Gotong Royong with Panca farming efforts the government also build a large-capacity fertilizer industry. 1998 is an important year for national rice history. The flood that as a result of El-Nino causes rice production to drop to 4%. At the same time there is an economic crisis that makes many people lose their jobs and their income decreases so that the poverty rate rises sharply. Indonesia is a country where most of its people rely on the agricultural sector as a livelihood. However, Indonesian farmers are not those with high levels of welfare. They are the people who are still poor and marginalized. The condition of rice consumption in Indonesia, along with the increasing population growth from year to year, the need for rice also increased both for food consumption and as raw material for food and non food industry, seed consumption and other consumption. Based on all the potentials owned by the breadfruit plants, the breadfruit crop is feasible to be cultivated as one of the efforts to increase food sources in Indonesia. So that can be achieved food security with no pivot on one source only that is rice. This is the purpose of diversification and development of food scientifically