Harvest Area and Rice Production in Kalimantan Selatan Province in 2021

The availability of timely and accurate agricultural data is the foundation for realizing targeted agricultural policies. 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. The ASF Survey for rice commodities began to be implemented nationally in 2018. Field observations KSA surveys were conducted on the last 7 (seven) days of each month. Based on the results of the KSA Survey, the rice harvested area in 2021 in South Kalimantan reached around 254.26 thousand hectares or decreased by 35.57 thousand hectares (12.27) percent compared to 2020. Meanwhile, rice production in 2021 was 1.02 million tons of GKG. If converted into rice, rice production in 2021 will reach around 601.33 thousand tons, or a decrease of 79.28 thousand tons (11.65 percent) compared to rice production in 2020 which amounted to 680.61 thousand tons.