Brainsucker
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It can be done if the government let the meat price to be controlled by domestic supply and demand and avoid making intervention by importing meat from other countries when the domestic meat price goes up. Many government intervention in this sector is made to control inflation and not due to scarcity. At least it is true for my country case.
The problem is that this policy is not popular for any developing countries whose people income is not that high. Actually I prefer this policy so that we can be self sufficient on meat, eggs, chicken and also agriculture product and grow our own farm so that the money can be circulated inside the country. We need to give incentive for our own farmer so that they have more motivation to expand their business. This policy can hurt the people wallet in the sort term but give more benefit in the longer term for the nation.
For China, it always not enough, because they have to feed a lot of people. Like 1.4 billion people. And because there are a lot of new middle income people, which need more quality food, their animal farms won't be enough. Even if they have the biggest livestock farms in this world.
While Indonesia, don't dream too much about self sufficient in everything. We are archipelago country. Our land is not enough for everything. We have a very vast sea. We don't have enough land to make a lot of cattle farms. And our climate is not compatible for cotton farms. So we should focus on marine developing, rather than forcing ourselves to self sufficiently provide beef to our people. Well, fish is also tasty. So why not?
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