Indonesia is one of the most fertile countries in the world, experts say, but farmers there are struggling to grow basic crops.<br /><br />The country was self-sufficient before it opened up its agricultural market, under international pressure, to the free market in the late 1990s.<br /><br />Today, cheap imports from abroad are hampering local business.<br /><br />Many say the country's agricultural sector needs to modernise or it will become fully dependent on food imports.<br /><br />Al Jazeera's Step Vaessen reports from Cianjur in West Java.
