Government Intervention in Agriculture Industry in...

Nowadays in Indonesia, Fruits and vegetables have become rare items due to slow distribution and poor transportation (TheJakartaPost, 2010). This will cause price of fruits and vegetables to increase due to shortage of supply. Not only that, inequality in distribution of income by farmers has take place due to lack of capital acess (TheJakartaPost, 2010). The market economy requires institution such as government to implement policies and making decisions to maintain market and avoid market failures like monopoly and negative externalities. Government intervention such as decision to guarantee continuous supplies of horticultural products will not only complement the high demand and needs for nutrition by society, but it will also avoid†¦show more content†¦While due to shortage in their supply, in June 2010 prices of rice and chili have increased by 2.67% and 45.7% (BPS, 2010). It indicates that price mechanism has been working along side with less government intervention i ncluded. If this continues, not only price will increase due to high demand and scarce of goods, but it will also affect the amount of nutrition taken by society, where fruits and vegetables are the staple food of daily diets. This clearly shows that action has to be done by the government, to varying people’s diet and to improve nutrition, and also to stabilize the prices of horticultural products as well. Government is working on a bill to improve fruit and vegetables supplies, in order to guarantee a continuous supply of horticultural products and to improve market outcome by facilitating better capital access, financing and providing guarantees (TheJakartaPost, 2010). These will prevent shortage of supply in market and will avoid prices to increase. Government will also have to come out with policy in order to achieve goal of equality. Dadi Sudiana, chairperson of Chili Agribusiness Association stated that â€Å"We always [profit less] from high priced staple foods such as red chili†. 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