Indonesia needs to quadruple sugar output by 2030 for self-sufficiency, ethanol
Indonesia needs to increase its sugar production by almost 300 percent from the current amount by 2030 if the country wants to achieve self-sufficiency, including feeding its bioethanol ambition.
To realize this, Indonesia would need to reach sugar production of 9.7 million tonnes by 2030, according to data compiled by state-owned plantation holding PTPN. This is a significant increase from last year’s production, which is estimated at around 2.5 million tonnes. Producing this amount is expected to require 1.18 million hectares of land for sugarcane plantations, where currently Indonesia only has 489,000 ha of land, the same data also show. The Agriculture Ministry’s seasonal crops director M. Rizal Ismail said at an event on Tuesday that Indonesia needed at least 13 billion sugar cane seeds to realize the 2030 target. The country also needs to massively increase the number of sugar processing plants, he said, adding that currently there were only 58 sugar factories, spread…..
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