Cooking Oil Prices are Expensive, Ministry of Trade Asks Producers to Do This

Jakarta –

The Ministry of Trade (Kemendag) asks associations and producers cooking oil Palm oil continues to produce bulk cooking oil and simple packaged cooking oil, at least until the national religious holidays (HBKN) Christmas and New Year 2022.

The Director General of Domestic Trade at the Ministry of Trade, Oke Nurwan, emphasized that the government took this step as an effort to maintain the supply and price of cooking oil in the country.

“We ask both associations and palm cooking oil producers to continue to produce bulk cooking oil and simple packaged cooking oil to maintain domestic supply at an affordable price at least until Christmas and New Year 2022,” Oke said in a written statement quoted detik.com, Saturday (6/11/2021).

The government also continues to monitor its distribution by cooperating with modern retail associations. The goal is to make simple packaged cooking oil easily accessible to all levels of society.

Okay, explaining that cooking oil prices rose more because international prices rose quite sharply. This is because the supply of cooking oil in the community is currently safe. The national demand for cooking oil is 5.06 million tons per year, while its production can reach 8.02 million tons.

He continued, although Indonesia is a producer crude palm oil (CPO) is the largest, conditions on the ground show that most cooking oil producers are not integrated with CPO producers.

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