Temasek Holdings chief executive officer (CEO) Dilhan Pillay runs a US$290 billion state-owned investment empire. But every quarter he spends up to two hours chatting to a man in Indonesia about fish.
The city-state’s $417 billion investment fund has thrown its weight behind agriculture, putting it in a prime place to cope with the worsening global food crisis.
Temasek Holdings Chief Executive Officer Dilhan Pillay runs a US$290 billion state-owned investment empire. But every quarter he spends up to two hours chatting to a man in Indonesia about fish.
For years Indramayu has been known as one of Indonesia’s rice centres. The district in West Java is the country’s number one rice producer, generating 1.3 million tonnes of husked rice in 2021, ac