Ministrer of Agriculture, Mr.Suswono, Officially Closed Agrinex2013
The 7thAgrinex Expo which was held for 3 days, on 5-7 April 2013, in Jakarta, was officially closed by the Minister of Agriculture, Mr.Suswono, on 7 April 2013. The Minister of Agriculturewas happy to welcome such special event which has been organized since 2007. He expected that such event would be utilized by farmers, especially the horticultural farmers, to promote their agricultural products. "I welcome such special event, and I expect in the future the Organizing Committee will plan that better one, so our horticultural products will find its market," he explained.
The Chairman of the Organizing Committee, Ms.RifdaAmmarina, on her closing address she stated that the purpose to organize such special event was to promote the Indonesian horticultural products. She expected, by visiting the event the communities will know and aware of the domestic products and will buy them. Thus, they indirectly willreduce the importation of similar products.
"The objectives of the Agrinex Expo are to provide the platform for the Indonesian farmers topromote their local products for the communities at large," she explained. Furthermore, Rifdastated that this year the participants were really focused to get the market. Most of the participants offered their products to the hoteliers and restaurants, therefore, the total number of transactionshave increased compared to last year event.
Finally, in his closing remarks, IPB Rector, Prof.Dr.IrHerrySuhardiyanto, M.Sc, stated that the 2013 Agrinexwas the important instrument to evaluate the development of innovation, business opportunities, and the establishment of cooperation network. Prof. Suhardiyanto alsostated the importance to understand the agriculture in the broadest sense. "We have to cooperate together for harder work so that food production problems can be resolved. The agriculture problems are very complex issues, they should be managed properly, they shouldn’t be viewed from one side only, "said the rector.(Wied).
