Article: PRESIDENT ENCOURAGES FARMERS TO CULTIVATE NEW PADDY VARIETIES.

Nganjuk, East Java Province, Sept. 11 (ANTARA): President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono encouraged farmers to cultivate new paddy varieties in order to increase national food production. "Keep on cultivating new varieties. It's important because many Indonesian sons and daughters as well as farmers who are geniuses are doing research to improve food production," the president said in a dialog with hundreds of farmers at Demangan village, Tanjung Anom sub district, Nganjuk District, on Thursday. The dialog with local farmers was part of the President's agenda during his Ramadan (fasting month) Safari in East Java Province from September 10 to 12, 2008. The head of state also ...

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