Bantul, June 14 -- The Indonesian government will not import corn for animal feed this year since domestic production is expected to meet national demand.

This was announced by Yudi Sastro, Director General of Food Crops at the Ministry of Agriculture, after joining a corn harvest in Bantul, Yogyakarta, on Saturday.

"The majority of corn we grow in Indonesia is feed corn," Sastro said. "God willing, even though our demand for feed corn is high, we ensured that there will be no imports this year."

The decision not to import corn has been supported by collaboration with the National Police (Polri) to cultivate corn over 1 million hectares of land across the country.

Sastro said that the national corn feed supply remains secure. While he...