Jakarta, Sept. 12 -- Agriculture Minister Syahrul Yasin Limpo unveiled on Saturday the ministry's plan on developing horticultural crops in Humbang Hasundutan Village, North Sumatra Province, under the government's Food Estate Program to be commenced this year.

The first phase of this Food Estate Program will be started on one thousand hectares of farmland, Limpo noted in a statement made available to ANTARA here in connection with his working visit to Ria-Ria Village in Humbang Hasundutan (Humbahas) on Saturday.

"We have planned to develop the food estate program on 30 thousand hectares of farmland in Humbahas District. As a trial, we are cultivating a thousand hectares of farmland this year," he noted.

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