Harvested Area and Rice Production in D.I. Yogyakarta Province 2023

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 are now merged into the National Research and Innovation Agency (BRIN), the Ministry of Agrarian Affairs and Spatial Planning/National Land Agency (Ministry of ATR/BPN), and the Geospatial Information Agency (BIG) to improve the methodology for calculating the area of ​​rice harvests 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 realized in an activity entitled "Integrated Food Crop Agricultural Statistics Data Collection with the Area Sample Framework (KSA) Method" or better known as the KSA Survey. The implementation of the KSA Survey for rice commodities began to be implemented nationally in 2018. Field observations of the KSA Survey were carried out on the last 7 (seven) days of each month. Based on the results of the KSA Survey, in 2023, the area of ​​rice harvests in the Province of D.I. Yogyakarta reached around 105.69 thousand hectares or decreased by 5.23 thousand hectares (4.72 percent) compared to 2022. Meanwhile, rice production in 2023 was 534.11 thousand dry milled rice (GKG). If converted into rice, rice production in 2023 reached around 303.39 thousand tons, or decreased by 15.67 thousand tons (4.91 percent) compared to rice production in 2022. In addition to producing an estimate of the harvest area, the KSA Survey also provides an overview of other rice amat phases, such as the area of ​​early vegetative phase, late vegetative, generative, potential for crop failure, area of ​​fallow agricultural land, and area of ​​agricultural land planted with crops other than rice.