Harvest Area and Rice Production in Bangka Belitung Islands Province 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), as well as 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 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 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, in 2021, the rice harvested area will reach around 18.28 thousand hectares or an increase of 440 thousand hectares (2.45 percent) compared to 2020. Meanwhile, rice production in 2021 is 70.49 thousand tons. MPD. If converted into rice, rice production in 2021 will reach around 41.79 thousand tons, or an increase of 7.81 thousand tons (22.98 percent) compared to rice production in 2020. In addition to producing an estimate of harvested area, the KSA Survey also provides a related picture. 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.