Surabaya, The Indonesia Post – The East Java Provincial Government is committed to consistently proving and realizing national food security and self-sufficiency so that it becomes a barometer for food commodities from the agricultural sector.
“Alhamdulillah, East Java continues to consistently prove its commitment to national food self-sufficiency. The beef cattle population, with 4.9 million head, is very far from the province in second place with 1.8 million head,” East Java Governor Khofifah Indar Parawansa said in Surabaya, Saturday.
Based on data from the Central Statistics Agency for 2021, East Java is ranked first in contributing to the national population of beef cattle, dairy cattle and laying hens.
In detail, East Java beef cattle reached 4.9 million heads or the equivalent of 27 percent of the national beef cattle population.
The population of dairy cows reaches 305 thousand heads which contributes 52 percent to the national dairy cattle population.
Apart from dairy cows and beef cattle, the laying hen population in East Java reaches 52.9 million and contributes 28 percent to the national laying hen population.
The number one person in the East Java Provincial Government hopes that this figure must continue to be stable so that in addition to meeting the needs of the province, it is also the basis for food for other provinces.
For meat production in East Java, it has reached 613,200 tons, which contributes 20 percent to national meat production.
Meanwhile, egg production reached 573,184 tons or 29 percent nationally, and milk production reached 545,526 tons or the equivalent of 57 percent of national milk production.
Meanwhile, East Java’s success in maintaining national food contribution in the livestock sector is also in line with various preventive measures, especially handling cases of Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD) in the local area.
Based on data from http//siagapmk.id/ as of December 31 2022, out of 38 Regencies/Cities in East Java that were attacked by PMK as many as 61 percent or 23 of them were declared free or Zero Reported Cases.
“The achievement of PMK vaccination in East Java was recorded as the highest in Indonesia, namely nearly 2.58 million doses,” said the first female governor of East Java. (mhn/bbs)
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