TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - Facing a budget squeeze, the agriculture ministry has decided to involve the private sector in the free lunch and milk program. Importers of milk and its derivative products, beef cattle fattening entrepreneurs and chicken rearing companies are being asked to participate in the program, a campaign promise of presidential election winners Prabowo Subianto and Gibran Rakabuming Raka.
These companies have been asked to increase the numbers of dairy cattle. The government is targeting an additional 1.1 million lactating dairy cattle in the near future.
Retno Sulistyowati
Editor
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