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Article: PLANTATION PRODUCE SEES PRODUCTION INCREASES AND PRICE DECREASES
- Article from:
- Indonesian Commercial Newsletter
- Article date:
- January 11, 1993
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In Indonesia, plantation commodities --including yearly-crop commodities and seasonal-crop commodities-- still constitute one of the biggest foreign-exchange earners from the non-oil/gas sector. Although some of Indonesian plantation commodities are subjected to a trade mechanism imposed by the Government in a bid to stabilize domestic supplies, they still make dependable export commodities.
For the past five years (1987-1991), the acreage of Indonesian plantations kept increasing. It rose from 10,300,265 hectares in 1987 to 11,734,507 hectares in 1990. In 1991, according to tentative figures made by the Directorate General of Plantations, the total acreage of ...