Hari Pangan Dunia Diharapkan jadi Langkah Awal Pembentukan Lembaga Otoritas Pangan
World Food Day is Hope Become the First Step to Form the Food Authority
Reporter : Gusmiati Waris
Editor : Cahyani Harzi
Translator : Dhelia Gani
Padang (B2B) - Menteri Pertanian Suswono menyambut baik integrasi sektor kesejahteraan dan kesehatan masyarakat dalam peringatan Hari Pangan Sedunia di Sumatera Barat, yang melibatkan tiga kementerian di sektor perekonomian yakni Kementerian Kelautan Perikanan dan Kementerian Kehutanan, serta Kementerian Kesehatan dan Kementerian Koordinator kesejahteraan Rakyat.
"Kementerian Pertanian mengharapkan partisipasi kementerian di luar sektor perekonomian, memberikan makna semakin terintegrasinya masalah pangan dengan kesejahteraan dan dan kesehatan masyarakat," kata Mentan Suswono saat menutup peringatan Hari Pangan Sedunia (HPS) ke-33 di Padang, Sumatera Barat, Minggu (3/11).
Peringatan HPS ke-33 di Padang, Sumatera Barat dibuka oleh Presiden Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (SBY) pada Kamis (31/10).
Peserta HPS ke-33 tidak hanya berasal dari unsur-unsur tiga kementerian di bawah koordinasi Kementerian Koordinator Perekonomian meliputi Kementerian Pertanian, Kementerian Kelautan dan Perikanan, dan Kementerian Kehutanan. Juga diikuti oleh unsur dari Kementerian Kesejahteraan Rakyat, Badan Perencanaan Pembangunan Nasional (Bappenas) dan Kementerian Kesehatan.
Integrasi sektor perekonomian dan kesejahteraan masyarakat di masa mendatang dalam masalah pangan, kata Suswono, diharapkan menjadi cikal bakal pembentukan kelembagaan otoritas pangan yang berwenang penuh menangani ketahanan pangan dan bertanggung jawab kepada Presiden RI.
Menurutnya, hal ini terkait dengan kebijakan dan operasionalisasi bidang pangan, termasuk upaya diversifikasi pangan sehingga dapat mengubah Indonesia dari negara rice eater, dan secara bertahap meningkatkan konsumsi pangan dari hewan ternak maupun umbi-umbian, sayur-mayur, buah-buahan, dan hasil laut.
"Dalam rangka mewujdukan keinginan untuk diversifikasi pangan tersebut, Kementerian Kehutanan memberikan komitmen untuk mendukung penyediaan lahan untuk budidaya pertanian, sehingga target diversifikasi pangan dapat tercapai," ungkap Suswono.
Padang (B2B) - Minister of Agriculture (MoA) Suswono welcomed the integration of public health and people´s welfare in the commemoration of World Food Day in West Sumatra, which involves three ministries in the sectors of the economy ie the Marine and Fisheries Ministry, Forestry Ministry, and the Ministry of Health and Welfare Ministry Coordinator.
"The Ministry of Agriculture addressing the participation of ministries outside the economic sectors, indicating increasingly integrated food security issues to public welfare and public health," said Minister of Agriculture Suswono when closed commemoration of World Food Day (HPS) to-33 in Padang, West Sumatra, on Sunday (3/11).
HPS Commemoration the 33rd in Padang, West Sumatra was opened by President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (SBY) on Thursday (31/10).
HPS the 33rd participants from related parties of three economic sector ministries under the Coordinating Ministry for Economy (Ministry of Agriculture, Marine and Fisheries Ministry, Forestry Ministry) and Welfare Ministry Coordinator, the National Development Planning Agency (Bappenas) and the Ministry of Health.
Integration of economic sectors and people´s welfare in the future in the food supply, Suswono said, who expect become the embryo to form the food authority, to improve to improve food security in Indonesia.
According to him, this is related with the policy and operational compliance of food supply, through diversification of food that can change people´s habits as a rice eater, and gradually turn to food made â��â��from root crops, vegetables, fruits, and fish consumption.
"To realize the target of diversifying food consumption, the forestry ministry is committed to supporting the provision of land for agricultural cultivation, to support the achievement of diversifying food consumption," Suswono said.
