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A`LIA READY TO INVEST IN ANIMAL HUSBANDRY IN INDONESIA
Jakarta, Nov 12 (ANTARA) - Australia is ready to implement its investment plan in animal husbandry in Indonesia covering beef cattle and milch cows, Agriculture minister Anton Apriyantono said here on Wednesday.
He said in his meeting with Australian minister of agriculture, forestry and marine resources Tony Burke in Australia on November 11 it was agreed that a taskforce would be set up early next year to realize the plan.
"They will send experts to help Indonesia make proposals connected with efforts to expediate investment in the agribusiness commodity," he said when presenting the results of the Indonesia-Australia Ministerial Meeting on November 10-12 in Australia.
He said the project was aimed at meeting demand of the Middle East market.
He said countries in the Middle East preferred to import meat from Indonesia because of its religious legality.
About the amount of the investment the minister said that it still had yet to be negotiated in detail pending the results of the taskforce's work.
Anton said besides investment Australia in the meeting had urged Indonesia to import innards from that country. In response to it he said Indonesia's policy remained that it banned innards imports because the commodity was not consumable in view of its high hormon and antibiotic content.
"If Australia wishes to export innards to Indonesia the commodity must be in the processed form and intended for animal feed," he said.
About Australia's objection to the Indonesian government regulation on bilingual label for animal husbandry products exported to Indonesia, Anton said that the policy was intended for increasing traceability system to avoid smuggling.
"It often happens products claimed to be coming from Australia while in fact they come from other countries that are not yet free of diseases," he said.
In the meeting Indonesia has conveyed its complain on the Australian policy or the policy of West Australia and Northern Territoty to be exact that hinders exports of animal feed for cows to be sent to Indonesia.
He said the feed was needed especially during the trip from Australia to Indonesia so that the animals had adapted themselves upon arrival in the country.
He said in his meeting with Australian minister of agriculture, forestry and marine resources Tony Burke in Australia on November 11 it was agreed that a taskforce would be set up early next year to realize the plan.
"They will send experts to help Indonesia make proposals connected with efforts to expediate investment in the agribusiness commodity," he said when presenting the results of the Indonesia-Australia Ministerial Meeting on November 10-12 in Australia.
He said the project was aimed at meeting demand of the Middle East market.
He said countries in the Middle East preferred to import meat from Indonesia because of its religious legality.
About the amount of the investment the minister said that it still had yet to be negotiated in detail pending the results of the taskforce's work.
Anton said besides investment Australia in the meeting had urged Indonesia to import innards from that country. In response to it he said Indonesia's policy remained that it banned innards imports because the commodity was not consumable in view of its high hormon and antibiotic content.
"If Australia wishes to export innards to Indonesia the commodity must be in the processed form and intended for animal feed," he said.
About Australia's objection to the Indonesian government regulation on bilingual label for animal husbandry products exported to Indonesia, Anton said that the policy was intended for increasing traceability system to avoid smuggling.
"It often happens products claimed to be coming from Australia while in fact they come from other countries that are not yet free of diseases," he said.
In the meeting Indonesia has conveyed its complain on the Australian policy or the policy of West Australia and Northern Territoty to be exact that hinders exports of animal feed for cows to be sent to Indonesia.
He said the feed was needed especially during the trip from Australia to Indonesia so that the animals had adapted themselves upon arrival in the country.
