Jakarta (ANTARA) – Minister of Home Affairs Tito Karnavian has been consuming corn and sweet potatoes as alternative staple foods to promote food diversification in a bid to cut the people’s reliance on rice.”For the past few weeks, Mr. Home Affairs Minister has also been consuming corn and sweet potatoes,” Acting Head of the Home Affairs Ministry’s Information Center, Yudia Ramli, told the media in Jakarta on Friday (October 6). Hence, food diversification is a crucial measure for enabling us to break free from reliance on certain foods, he noted. ccording to Ramli, Minister Karnavian’s push for food diversification was intended to help people reduce their reliance on certain commodities, especially amid the worldwide heat phenomenon El Nino. He said the minister believed that it is necessary to encourage all parties to make various efforts to escape such a reliance in the hopes of stabilizing the prices of all commodities. Rice does contain carbohydrates, but it should be noted that Indonesia has numerous alternative commodities that can serve as sources of carbohydrates for the nation, Ramli stated. Hence, he noted that Minister Karnavian had been pressing for conducting food diversification, with the end goal of helping the nation break free from reliance on certain food commodities.

Source: Antara News Agency