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The highest retail price increase of subsidized fertilizer based on the Minister of Agriculture Regulation No. 32 Year 2010 made a number of farmers in Probolinggo, East Java, found it difficult. According to a fertilizer dealer in Jalan Sudirman, the increase in fertilizer prices ranging from 25 percent to 35 percent. Prices do not include the profits taken by the seller of fertilizer.

This makes the cost of planting increased and increasingly burdensome considering the price of grain farmers are now down. Farmers expect the government to review the fertilizer price increase, or at least create a stable grain price in pasaran.negara forward until the end of 2011, at an average rate of nine percent.

“High Unemployment constant may be the main policy challenges facing these countries because the recovery gain traction,” Write a report agency based in Washington.

“World Economic Outlook” The IMF projected that economic progress will be difficult to create enough jobs even when their economy recovers to meet the expanding workforce. According to IMF projections “the unemployment rate remains high – about nine per cent – until the end of 2011.

The IMF warned the United States, European countries and Japan that they must do more to start improving job market.

Although the U.S. economy created 162,000 jobs in March, the biggest increase in three years, the unemployment rate remained at 9.7 percent range.

Since the recession began in December 2007, approximately eight million Americans lost their jobs. Approximately 15 million Americans are still unemployed.

This is the same gloomy situation in most of Europe. In the last quarter of 2009, Spain reported the unemployment rate amounted to 18.83 percent.