Jakarta, July 13 -- Agriculture Minister Syahrul Yasin Limpo affirmed that the development of a food estate envisioned in Central Kalimantan will apply modern technology in farming.

At a meeting to discuss agricultural development here on Monday, Limpo remarked that the national food barn development project outside Java Island had become one of the ministry's programs to increase the availability of food in the country.

"Food estate development, especially in Central Kalimantan, is aimed at increasing food production by capitalizing on integrated agricultural modernization," he emphasized.

The minister remarked that an integrated process will be applied, right from the production to post-harvesting phase, on 165 thousand hectares of f...