Harvested Area and Production of Paddy in Papua Barat Province 2021

Since 2018, BPS has collaborated with the Agency for the Assessment and Application of Technology (BPPT) the National Institute of Aeronautics and Space (LAPAN) which has now merged into the National Research and Innovation Agency (BRIN), the Ministry of Agrarian and Spatial Planning/National Land Agency (Ministry of ATR/ BPN), and the Geospatial Information Agency (BIG) are trying to improve the methodology for calculating rice harvested area through the application of objective measurement by utilizing advances in information and communication technology and the availability of high-resolution satellite imagery. This collaboration is manifested in an activity entitled “Integrated Food Crops Agricultural Statistics Data Collection with Area Sample Framework (KSA) Method” or better known as the ASF Survey. Based on the results of the KSA Survey, in 2021, the rice harvested area in Papua Barat will reach around 6.42 thousand hectares or a decrease of 1.16 thousand hectares (15.26 percent) compared to 2020. Meanwhile, rice production in Papua Barat in 2021, which is 26.93 thousand tons of GKG. If converted into rice, rice production in West Papua in 2021 will reach around 16.18 thousand tons, or an increase of 1.61 thousand tons (11.03 percent) compared to rice production in 2020. In addition to producing an estimate of harvested area, the KSA Survey also provides an overview related to other very rice phases, such as the area of ​​the early vegetative, late vegetative, generative phases, potential for crop failure, the area of ​​agricultural land left, and the area of ​​agricultural land planted with crops other than rice.