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Article: Indonesia: vast island chain offers new vistas for U.S. exporters. (interview with United States agricultural counselor in Indonesia, Michael Humphrey) (Interview)
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- AgExporter
- Article date:
- September 1, 1993
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Michael Humphrey, the U.S. agricultural counselor in Indonesia, sees this vast island chain as a "must" market for U.S. food exporters to explore. While in the United States recently, Humphrey talked with AgExporter about the superb growth potential for agricultural sales to Indonesia, which already ranks as the world's fourth most populous country and where per capita incomes are expected to swell by more than a third by the end of the decade.
AgExporter: What is fueling your optimism about the potential of the Indonesian market?
Humphrey: Jarkarta today reminds me a lot of another post I served in during the 1980s, Hong Kong. This city, and most of ...