Jakarta, April 7 -- President Prabowo Subianto is targeting to set up 80 thousand Red and White Village Cooperatives (KopDes), which will be equipped with trucks to market harvests, which will be provided through business credit facilities, and pharmacies.

"We hope that each village cooperative will have two trucks each in order to bring farmers' produce to the market," he said while delivering his speech at the national harvest agenda in Majalengka, West Java, on Monday.

Through village cooperatives, the government will support the provision of credit assistance for farmers and fishermen, including credit for buying trucks to market harvests, he informed.

Besides business credit assistance, the cooperatives will have a cold storage ro...