The study focused on the impact of recent global economic developments like trade liberalization, stock farm products including rice, environmental and domestic policies on secondary crop production, consumption, and processing in two interrelated components: general approach and case studies....

Since the Kyoto Protocol came into effect in 2005, more attention has been paid to the development of biomass resource use. The tropical Asian countries have large potential for biomass production. In order to reduce imported fuel, the Government of Indonesia is attempting to find alternative...