Shutterstock ILLUSTRATION: Every Friday BKP employees were asked to consume rice alternative food, especially sweet potatoes and corn, and vegetables.1
MANADO, KOMPAS.com - Food Security Agency (BKP) North Sulawesi (Sulawesi) requires that employees do not eat rice daily in an effort to motivate people to reduce consumption of rice.
"The first stage is merely a brief all employees in the ranks of BKP is required every Friday not to eat rice," said Chief BKP Flammable, F Kaunang in Manado on Saturday (01/22/2011).
He said, every Friday these employees were asked to consume an alternative food rice, especially sweet potatoes and corn, and vegetables. By learning to not eat the rice, said Kaunang, it is expected that followed the public to begin to reduce the consumption of rice was recorded highest in the world.
"Consumption of rice has reached the people of North Sulawesi 139.15 kilograms per capita per year, that number far exceeds the world's rice consumption is only around 56.9 percent," said Kaunang.
The use of rice is too high, said Frits, became one threat amid fears of food crisis spread to the North Sulawesi. He said the people of North Sulawesi facing big threat if rice production is reduced, because the local government asks the people of this area began to dare to change the diet.
"Changing your diet begins from the ranks of BKP, it is expected that the people look at it positively," said Kaunang.
Eating foods such as sweet alternative to rice and corn is more profitable in terms of costs, because the price is much cheaper than rice. Changing eating patterns, he added, should be socialized from now, when before eating rice two to three times a day to be reduced to only one time, when this habit continues to do so will slowly get used to.
Frits said, until January 2011, the availability of rice Flammable society is still quite available, but the future must be anticipated by the community readiness to change eating patterns.
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