Agricultural managed investment Never Serious

Government has never seriously in the development of agricultural investment and the addition of agricultural land. The government is still too focused on the development of investment in industry and manufacturing. In fact, by encouraging investment in agriculture, will create many job opportunities and available food independently.

However, the government must continue to protect potential agricultural land for food and should not be defeated by sheer industry of investment interest. Moreover, the area of ​​productive land in Indonesia is increasingly shrinking due to the reallocation of land from agricultural to nonagricultural.

"The government is expected to continue to promote investment in agriculture as a priority among priorities of other sectors. With the increase in agricultural production, it will provide a tremendous impact. National food security is maintained, will increase farmers' income, employment opportunities in rural areas will become even wider, number of poor in rural areas will be reduced, foreign countries will increase, and the GDP (gross domestic product) will also increase the agricultural sector, "said a member of the Prosperous Justice Party, Rofi Munawar, in Jakarta, Friday (04/13/2012) night .

Legislators from the East Java VII is confirmed, Indonesia has many advantages compared with other countries in investing in agriculture. "Verily, encourage investment in the agricultural sector will encourage significant economic growth. Agricultural sector professions involving millions of people. When purchasing power and improve their income, will also improve their production and purchasing power," he said.

Ministry of Agriculture data show, during 2005 - 2009 capital investment in the country rose 23.03 percent from Rp 30.7 trillion to Rp 37.8 trillion. However, 51.4 to 75.4 percent goes to the industrial sector.

As for foreign investment in the agricultural sector, but the lowest proportion, also decreased from 3.9 percent (2005) to 1.2 percent (2009). In 2009, total investment of foreign capital investment amounting to 10.81 billion U.S. dollars, the agricultural sector amounted to only 0.129 billion U.S. dollars.