Crude palm oil and rubber are commodities Indonesia could rely on to deal with the Asean-China Free Trade Agreement, an Agriculture Ministry official said here on Friday. “Indonesia is a leading producer of raw materials. Plantation products and rice are actually our strength,” the Agriculture Ministry`s secretary general, Hasanuddin Ibrahim, said at Agrinex International Expo 2010.
However it is a pity that rice exports are still small to only a few countries and of certain varieties, he said.
