Paddy Harvested Area and Production in Kalimantan Utara Province 2020

The availability of timely and accurate agricultural data is the foundation for realizing agricultural policies that are on target. Since 2018, BPS-Statistics Indonesia has collaborated with the Agency for the Assessment and Application of Technology (BPPT), supported by the Ministry of Agrarian Affairs and Spatial Planning/National Land Agency (Ministry of ATR/BPN), the Geospatial Information Agency (BIG), and the National Aeronautics and Space Agency (LAPAN). seeks to improve the methodology for calculating rice harvested area through the application of objective measurement by utilizing advances in information and communication technology as well as the availability of high-resolution satellite imagery. This collaboration is manifested in an activity entitled "Integrated Food Crops Agricultural Statistics Data Collection with Area Sampling Frame Method (KSA)" or better known as the KSA Survey. The KSA Survey for rice commodities began to be implemented nationally in 2018. Segment observations are carried out on the last 7 (seven) days of each month. Based on the results of the KSA Survey, in 2020, the rice harvested area in Kalimantan Utara Province is estimated at 9.88 thousand hectares or a decrease of 412 hectares (4 percent) compared to 2019. Meanwhile, rice production in 2020 is estimated at 33.57 thousand tons of Milled Dry Grain. If converted into rice, rice production in 2020 will reach around 19.8 thousand tons, or an increase of 128 tons (0.65 percent) compared to rice production in 2019. In addition to producing an estimate of harvested area, the KSA Survey also provides an overview of the critical phase. other types of rice, such as the area of ​​the early vegetative, late vegetative, generative, puso phases, as well as the area of ​​rice fields and fields that are not being planted with rice.