INDONESIAN SUGAR OUTPUT SEEN SHORT OF TARGET

  Indonesia's raw sugar output is likely
  to be 1.8 mln tonnes in calendar 1987, unchanged from 1986 and
  below the government's 1987 forecast of 2.5 mln, the U.S.
  Embassy said in its agricultural outlook for 1987.
      Indonesia bought 162,500 tonnes of raw sugar on world
  markets in late 1986, the report said.
      The embassy estimated Indonesia's calendar 1986 raw sugar
  production at 1.8 mln tonnes, against a government estimate of
  1.99 mln.
      It said that Indonesia's move into sugar self-sufficiency
  in 1984 may have been short-lived.
      The report said, "The government continues to promote
  sugarcane production through its smallholder intensification
  program and a relatively high guaranteed price to sugarcane
  producers.
      "However, there are considerable indications that farmers
  are reluctant to plant cane because its economic return is not
  as good as that of other crops."
  

